Please stop emailing me! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Ortenzi Sent: Wednesday, 5 November 2008 3:30 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
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/what_i_keep_in_stock/supplies_for_birds/cages_an d_ornaments/full_product_list.htm when any sensible marketer will tell you: www.chrisandhispetstore.com/products is where you should point them, and then let them find "cages" in one click on that page., maybe even at www.chrisandhispetstore.com/products/cages 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. BAD IA IMHO Joe OK, in marketing terms you can easily create your own TinyURL by redirecting vimportant traffic through a rewrite. On 05/11/2008, at 12:40 PM, Chris Vickery wrote: > 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. www.chrisandhispetstore.com/what_i_keep_in_stock/supplies_for_birds/cages_an d_ornaments/full_product_list.htm > 4. If it's longer than the width of the address bar then the whole > URL is not visible. > > Accessibility isn't just about clean code and text to speech > readers. It's about good IA and making everything generally better > to get at. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of silky > Sent: Wednesday, 5 November 2008 11:28 AM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] URL length best practices > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Joe Ortenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> other than making sense and having a strong connection with the >> page the >> content is on, there is no direct reason, other than being a bit >> sensible >> about it, I wouldn't advise testing out the 2048 characters. > > of course there is a good reason: so it's typable. not every url > should required to be clicked to be gotten to. > > -- > noon silky > http://skillsforvilla.tumblr.com/ > http://www.themonkeynet.com/armada/ > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > > > *********************************************************************** > WARNING: The information contained in this email may be confidential. > If you are not the intended recipient, any use or copying of any part > of this information is unauthorised. If you have received this email > in > error, we apologise for any inconvenience and request that you notify > the sender immediately and delete all copies of this email, together > with any attachments. > *********************************************************************** > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > ================================ Joseph Ortenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (0)434 047 804 http://www.typingthevoid.com http://twitter.com/wheelyweb http://www.linkedin.com/in/jortenzi Skype:wheelyweb http://au.movember.com/mospace/1714401 ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* -- Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering. http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg Click here to report this message as spam: https://login.mailguard.com.au/report/1wc50HObVz/4A8jXjLDyusxDyPnihvJDC/0 ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
