yes, good point.
I was making a subtle stab at the .htm versus .html discussion in here
recently.
but given my 'druthers, yes, I'd personally drop all file extensions
in URLs completely if I could.
Joe
On 05/11/2008, at 4:04 PM, Hassan Schroeder wrote:
Joe Ortenzi wrote:
the long and
More reasons to keep 'em short:
1. Makes it easy to quote URL (maybe over the phone)
2. I've seen a few email or publication programs break URLs where there's a
line return, so breaks the hyperlink
3. Makes layout difficult for desktop publishers and marketing ie.
2008 12:41
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More reasons to keep 'em short:
1. Makes it easy to quote URL (maybe over the phone) 2. I've seen a few
email or publication programs break URLs where there's a line return, so
breaks
take you to the same location.
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More reasons to keep 'em short
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i completely agree with Justin, and all points from just
Sorry for being a bit off topic but.
I think you missed a point about friendly URLs
For each of these examples you state, you really don't want to burden
your marketing team with urls like your example:
Please stop emailing me!
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Sorry for being a bit off topic
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Sorry for being a bit off topic but.
I think you missed a point about friendly URLs
For each of these examples you state, you really don't want to burden
your marketing team with urls like your example:
www.chrisandhispetstore.com
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Sorry for being a bit off topic but.
I think you missed a point about friendly URLs
For each
Joe Ortenzi wrote:
the long and friendly URL is really for the final page, which should not
bury a full product list so deeply and should be titled
/product_list.html anyway.
Uh, how about more properly '/product_list' (or '/product-list') --
your customers don't care about the underlying
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