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Mitch Pirtle mitch.pirtle-at-gmail.com |nyphp MAIN ONE dev/internal 
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> 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....

-=john