I appreciate your comments, Breton, thank you.
At 11:19 AM 1/03/2007 +1100, Breton Slivka wrote:
Given the structure of the <department> site, I am not sure that
there is any great advantage to be gained.'
what special qualities of the site's structure is he talking about here?
No special qualities. It's very simple. /dept/ contains all *.htm files
including the site index, with css/javascript/images/otherstuff in their own
/dirs/. Pretty basic. Maybe that's his point: little advantage.
is seamless multiple language support, and seamless multiple browser
support into the
future important to the company? Are clean, easy to remember URL's
important?
Nope, to easy URLs (forgive me, I don't understand the relationship between
MultiViews and language/browser support).
The webmaster I'm talking to is responsible for URLs that end like this
.... *.cfm?doc_id=n ... and thinks it's perfectly acceptable (just one of
the many many reasons I'm glad our dept's website is NOT in the
organisation's CMS). In fact, I think he quite likes them, and certainly
doesn't seem to think usable URLs are an issue in any way at all.
what percentage of your target audience would be able to take real
advantage of this change?
Probably a very small one. However, the last usability study I did on my
site (the webmaster hasn't done one of those, has he, nah, course not), a
couple of users actually mentioned how they preferred my dept's style of URL
to the organisation's. I was just trying to make it even better. I think
/dept/training/ just looks way cooler and more professional than
/dept/training.htm
Perhaps I'll just let this one go; there are sure to be bigger issues down
the track more worth my time. *sigh*
thanks again though, i really did want to understand more about his
response.
lib.
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