How does the FSS jQuery plugin affect SEO?

[9xbmarketing]

Looking to create a full screen sliding site for optimum use on tablets. Found this:

http://codecanyon.net/item/fss-full-screen-sliding-website-plugin/full_screen_preview/159103

What is the general feeling on using FSS in terms of SEO?

Should it be avoided?

What's the alternative?

Thanks!

[9xbmarketing]

Hi Kane

Many thanks - yes we picked up on the .js in the header so we'll look at a workaround for this.

Thanks

[KaneJamison]

The link you provided has an iFrame, but if you leave the iFrame and go to http://www.interactivegoods.com/fss/#/options you'll see the actual page.

When I open up the source, I see two things:

1. Javascript in the head area.
2. Zero content, just some empty divs and links to each section of content.

In the code, you see this:

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If you take a look at those page2.html files, they're not even full html files, they're sections of code being used as if they were PHP include files. I haven't seen html files used that way before and I don't think it's a standard practice.

I avoid content loaded via javascript, because I've seen it cause issues for clients. I am not a javascript developer, so maybe there's a way to do it correctly, but I"m not familiar with it.

Personally, I would not use this plugin on one of my sites. Find one that uses divs to contain the content, and javascript to animate the sliding, rather than using javascript to load the content, too.