Thursday, August 24, 2006

FUrlX updated

Just a quick post to say there is a new version of the EPiServer Research module FUrlX (A module that updates the Friendly Url function to remove the JavaScript reliance). This update fixes a problem regarding the querystring being lost on page postback.

The updated version can be downloaded from the FUrlX project page.

2 comments:

Haydn Thomsen said...

2 questions
1 - Does implementing friendly url's using the updated FUrlX add any, or much of a development overhead to a project. I.e. Would it take longer/cost more?

2 - Do you know of any research about friendly url's improving search engine rankings?

Jeremy said...

Implementation of the FUrlX function does not add any development overhead as it is just a configuration task. The requirement though is that you already have a site running using the standard FriendlyUrl functionality.

I don't know of any research but Mats from EPiServer did do an article on this in the last TechNews (http://www.episerver.com/en/NewsEvents/EPiServer_Newsletters/EPiServer_TechNews/EPiServer_TechNews_April_2006/Friendly_URL/)