Re: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-05 Thread Joe Ortenzi
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 f

Re: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Hassan Schroeder
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 '.

RE: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Chris Vickery
- 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 F

Re: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Brett Patterson
: 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

RE: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Ashley Butler
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

Re: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Joe Ortenzi
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_and_ornaments/ful

Re: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce
From: "silky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Todd Budnikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i completely agree with Justin, and all points from ju

Re: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread silky
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Todd Budnikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i completely agree with Justin, and all points from just about everyone who > responded, so thanks. A follow-up question is then do you paraphrase an > article title into a url, or just chop it? > /music/a-fresh-and-powerful

Re: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Todd Budnikas
c=001/003/001. Both URLs take you to the same location. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Vickery Sent: Wednesday, 5 November 2008 12:41 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] More

RE: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Bucci, Justin
day, 5 November 2008 12:41 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] 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'

RE: [WSG] URL length best practices [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-11-04 Thread Chris Vickery
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