I’m currently using SlideShowPro for an furniture shop website (www.olssongerthel.se/sortiment). The shop itself is offline so the website is only there to inform customers of what they sell in the actual shop.
To the left you see a tree, and every link there leads to a gallery filled with photos. Every album there uses SSP.
The problem is that SSP isn’t very search engine friendly since it uses flash. I need to remake parts of the site in order to optimize the site for search engines, because it currently have about 95% direct hits, and almost no search engine hits at all.
So what I’m looking for is a php gallery of some sort that can replace the current SSP gallery. The ones I’ve found so far are not possible to embed into the current page which is a huge drawback.
So, does anyone have any tips regarding this?
Best regards,
Adam
I wouldn’t get rid of the flash gallery though. I would use swfObject to embed the flash gallery that you have now. Then, in the div that swfObject uses to replace the content and show the flash, display the non flash content. That way, users that have the flash player can enjoy the rich content, and users that don’t have flash and/or javascript (including, nay especially the search engine bots) can still view (and index) the html content.
I use the same concept for the all-flash sites that I create. I make the text and images dynamic, coming in from a database, and in the alternate content, I am able to create an HTML page that is easily indexed. It seems to work out well for the search engines, I think partially because I set it up so the entire (flash) website’s content is all shown on the index page in html for users without the flash plugin, so that page is keyword rich.
[quote=djheru;2331511]I wouldn’t get rid of the flash gallery though. I would use swfObject to embed the flash gallery that you have now. Then, in the div that swfObject uses to replace the content and show the flash, display the non flash content. That way, users that have the flash player can enjoy the rich content, and users that don’t have flash and/or javascript (including, nay especially the search engine bots) can still view (and index) the html content.
I use the same concept for the all-flash sites that I create. I make the text and images dynamic, coming in from a database, and in the alternate content, I am able to create an HTML page that is easily indexed. It seems to work out well for the search engines, I think partially because I set it up so the entire (flash) website’s content is all shown on the index page in html for users without the flash plugin, so that page is keyword rich.[/quote]
Well, I understand what you mean, but adding title and description manually for every photo in every gallery would take ages, and seems like a very very bad idea.
Maybe it’s possible to use the database that is already in use for slideshowpro, but I don’t know how.
[quote=simplr;2331350]how’s this?
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex14/bgslide.htm[/quote]
Maybe I wasn’t clear enough. It’s not just a few background images. It’s a whole database of furniture photos.
[quote=insats;2331590]Well, I understand what you mean, but adding title and description manually for every photo in every gallery would take ages, and seems like a very very bad idea.
Maybe it’s possible to use the database that is already in use for slideshowpro, but I don’t know how.[/quote]
If you look at the database in some sort of GUI, you can see what columns store what information, then you can create a php query that gets the info out and writes it into a table.
