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[Mitch Pirtle]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:41 PM, inforequest <1j0lkq002 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> Mitch Pirtle mitch.pirtle-at-gmail.com |nyphp MAIN ONE dev/internal group
> use| wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Peter Becker <peterbsemail at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Is there even such a thing as an off-the-shelf CMS that does NOT do
>>> layout?
>>>  We are just beginning to design and spec the next rev of our site using
>>> Zend Framework.  We're looking for a something that will work for the
>>> business to create and update content but not get in the way of our page
>>> design/implementation, code promotion and environment management.  Any
>>> guidance here is greatly appreciated
>>>
>>
>> Check out silverstripe, which might do what you are looking for. It
>> takes a page-centric design attitude which definitely sits well with
>> designers.
>>
>> http://www.silverstripe.org/
>>
>> -- Mitch
>
> I always look at Mitch's recommendations, so I just dl'd and installed
> Silverlight and put up a test site. Nice and easy. But... sadly, not SEO
> compatible out of the box, and not simple to fix.
>
> The immediate core issue for me is the way it parses the URL on a slash...
>
> Practically speaking,  this causes duplicate content issues for spidering
> search engines e.g. the aboutus page is accessible at
> www.example.com/aboutus/ but also resolves at
> www.example.com/aboutus/whatever
> and www.example.com/aboutus/whatever/whatever/
>
> You don't get a 404 until you go three slashes out... chalk it up to the
> sapphire framework's front controller.
>
> I'm looking to see if I can clarify this for the sapphire dev forum, or if
> it has been addressed already in the roadmap....

Would be cool if you flagged them about it - chances are it is
something they could fix, if they understood it to be a problem.

    http://open.silverstripe.org/

-- Mitch