I have a database that is pulled into an iframe, and that iframe is displayed inside another iframe. My IT guy who is in charge of the database and all the coding did it. My question is, is this possible to recreate this within FW?
Sure. You could make this hall of mirrors as deep as you like. Make
each iframe on a separate page, and just target one to the next.
Walter
On Apr 2, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Nathan Garner wrote:
I have a database that is pulled into an iframe, and that iframe is
displayed inside another iframe. My IT guy who is in charge of the
database and all the coding did it. My question is, is this
possible to recreate this within FW?
Sometime around 2/4/08 (at 10:37 -0700) Ernie Simpson said:
Just as a matter of curiosity, is iframe content open to search engines?
Nope. The reason is simple: a search engine spider looks through the
page code, it doesn’t ‘run’ it and look through the results. So if
you use an iFrame then all the spider will see is the iFrame tag, not
the external page you’re pulling in. That isn’t a part of your web
page file’s own content.
So: iFrames are bad news for search engine optimising. So is content
inserted using JavaScript, for exactly the same overall reason.
I don’t think so. It’s the same problem as a regular frame. The only
thing an iframe buys you is convenience as a developer and
flexibility as a designer.
If you really want to include another site’s content into your page
in a manner that makes it appear (from the search engines’
perspective) as if that content is part of your site, you will need
to use a proxy or screen-scraper of some sort.
Walter
On Apr 2, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
Just as a matter of curiosity, is iframe content open to search
engines? ( I’m not asking Nathan specifically, just throwing this
out to anyone ).
Anything that is generated by PHP is the same as HTML when it reaches
the browser or 'bot. There is no way to tell one from the other. Of
course, anything private, like application logic, that is in PHP code
will stay there, kinda like Vegas. But anything HTML-shaped that is
generated by PHP is indistinguishable from vanilla static hand-or-
Freeway-coded HTML.
Walter
On Apr 2, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
Thanks Walter & Keith… If content that is generated from
javascript is not visible to the searchers, what about php?
That was my guess, from all the cms content that seems visible to search engines. I suppose then it wouldn’t matter where the code retrieved the content from, whether a db or from an existing page - it would be accessible by the se bots.
Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Anything that is generated by PHP is the same as HTML when it reaches
the browser or 'bot. There is no way to tell one from the other. Of
course, anything private, like application logic, that is in PHP code
will stay there, kinda like Vegas. But anything HTML-shaped that is
generated by PHP is indistinguishable from vanilla static hand-or-
Freeway-coded HTML.