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Vignette eats its own portal food
25-Sep-2006 --
After more
than 3 years since it released a successor to Version 6 of its CMS, Vignette
has upgraded its own public website. Vignette.com
now runs Vignette
Portal, backed by the company's V7 Content Management (VCM) product. The
graphical refresh is very nice. And good riddance to the old 0,2097,1-1-2049,00.html-style
URLs, but what of the replacements? As Enterprise
Portals Report readers know, portal URLs can get very ugly. Consider
this URL to Vignette's main solutions page:
http://www.vignette.com/portal/site/us/,
menuitem.c133f2f75f8cf1e8fb3d8010180141a0/;
jsessionid=FYGXQS9x63LfLHNcmR95gcLF0J2rJpt
5LvD4h95tSTdBJmpdcX2w!167006469
with its ungainly content GUID and the downright perilous session ID, which
makes URLs perishable and potentially search-engine unfriendly. To be fair,
the implementation does not always generate a session ID, and Vignette Portal
has work-arounds that can put forward friendlier URLs, but until then, this
dog food is kind of hard to digest...
- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst
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