Has anyone here made a website with ajax? Or consisting wholly oj AJAX coding? Is it difficult? What are the pros/cons for using it? Can it be used to enhance my website: http://thinkteen.co.uk? Thanks
AJAX is cool. But from an SEO perspective, it's not so cool. Make sure the content you have pulled into via AJAX is content you don't want seen in the search engines. ...I know there are ways around it, but are they effective? AJAX is good for form submissions and element of a page that need to be reloaded/submitted. Other than that, I'd stay away from it. Try tizag.com for tutorials
Ah ok kl How about MS Silverlight? The content that would be pulled via ajax would be one that should be indexed.
I'm not familiar with MS Silverlight - but if it's an MS based technology that is supposed to be a boxed and branded version of an existing web technology, I'd stay away.
Lol ok - hmm, I'm going to end up with a small problem since I haven't used flash before and part of the site is meant to be in flash..
What type of problem are you going to run into? What is the flash part of your site going to be? To be fair....google can parse some text in flash files but it's not predictable and I would suggest putting stuff you wish to be indexed inside a flash file. Don't forget that you can always use SEO'd, keyword rich landing pages to describe and link to your flash.
For basic stuff no, otherwise, yes. If you have the content generated by PHP you can call that by Ajax, and if you wanted it to be called when clicking a link, set the href to the PHP url, and the onclick attribute to the Ajax function. This way search engines and users without JS can access all areas of sites. Its a bit complicated to do, but once you do it, it is well worth it. Stay away from Flash, as it is far too big to download. The majoity of people I know get out of a flash site the instant it starts to load. I personally browse with flash turned off.