Although the average user barely pays attention to the url, I would - depending on the website, content, and visitors in question - be a bit cautious with changing the url. As a countermeasure to phishing attacks, messages have been spread like "Do not trust content from a website if the url is different", "Only proceed if the url starts with ...".
If the url changes from www.blue.com to www.blue.com/red it is clear that the user is still on the right domain, but I'm not sure whether people would recognize www.red.blue.com as a subdomain of blue.com. Of course it depends on the character of the website if this is an issue. For a bank or other financial services I would try not to mess with the url, for other domains it might be unimportant. Regards, Marielle ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
