The same forum post that called my attention to guitaraholic.com also reminded me about how badly websites that are heavy on Ajax perform in regards to search engines. Morfik applications are probably as heavy as you can get on Ajax, considering that Morfik apps are composed of a lot of Javascript and a little HTML.
What this means is that Morfik built applications do not fare well when it comes to having their content crawled by search engines. In fact, this is the primary reason why this blog is implemented using a general blogging service, instead of running on a custom built Morfik application.
Another recent post on the Morfik forums, this one by Aram Mirkazemi, Morfik's founder and CEO, promises some improvements in the area of Search Engine Optimization for an upcoming release. Those of us interested in creating websites, instead of or in addition to web applications, can now cross our fingers and hope that this means the 2.1 release that was also mentioned. This would mean that we could be using Morfik in website building a lot sooner than I had expected.
Labels: M2, SEO, Visual Design, Websites
Recently I had my attention called to a new website that is built with Morfik. The creator of the website posted a link on the Morfik forums and, with my curiosity working up, there I went browsing away to www.guitaraholic.com.
As most people using Morfik AppsBuilder (FX or BX) to build applications, looking over a publicly available website built with it is an interesting experience. The first thing I noticed was that the general color scheme is quite similar to that of the Morfik website. I guess this is not surprising as that is the most wildely know website to be built with Morfik AppsBuilder.
The concept is quite interesting. It seems to be a marketplace where you can enter information about guitars you own and read about the guitars that other people own. As you would expect, you can offer to buy or sell guitars, depending on the level of your membership account.
Guitaraholic offers three levels of membership, a free level in which you can only browse other's people's guitars and publish your own, and two paid levels which allow you to buy, and sell respectively. Not being a musician or guitar afficionado I have no idea of what the market for this is, but it certainly is interesting to visit, if you are considering the development of websites with Morfik.