Fleb Showcase, new Flebsite: FindAndDine
October 15, 2010 by: ChristianFindAndDine is a search engine for restaurants and bars in switzerland. The first version was launched in 2004, the next in 2008 using AS2 and SWFAddress. This version was built in less than 3 months. It has more than 20’000 links in Google & Co. The background theme and homepage change according to the time: coffee in the morning, salad at lunchtime, ice cream in the afternoon and some wine in the evening. All links are created dynamically (almost, the basic navigation is static). It was really important for all entries to be found in the search engines, so SEO had highest priority. The Site is based on the Fleb framework.
As Fleb itself is based on the global navigation, it was easy to add another navigation bar for a restaurant entry. In the screenshot below you can see two separate navigations: one at the left side, which is for the main site and another one for a restaurant entry. This navigation xml is created “on-the-fly”, so it is really flexible.
Using Fleb was fun, because I could concentrate on other things and let Fleb do the rest. A restaurant can even use the content for there own website. They can choose from many different colors. This is very convenient, because they only have to edit content in a single place.
Cheers,
Christian
You have done an awesome job on FLEB. It was my first time today finding your blog and work (searching SEO and found your link in Webmaster tools blog)
There are some complications for me to be able to relate it into my project but as far as the SEO for google, I tried that findanddine.ch and was totally amazed. Still am.
Thank you for sharing all the source file and hopefully I can take something out of it.
Hi Nimche
Thank you! Within the next few days (hopefully) I will release the next major release of Fleb. The most obvious new features are: loading fonts, full browser scrolling, dynamically creating or enhancing the navigation xml structure and a switch for mobile browsers (especially iPhone, iPod and iPad). Stay tuned!