Re. emergency URL repair
ben hyde <[email protected]>
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> Re. emergency URL repair > From: Tom McEwan <[email protected]> > > I believe these names are important enough - the interfaces to > information - that people should think about the usability of the names, > or better still they have guidelines to follow. (I'm sure an information > architect ought to leap in at this point and say this more persuasively) There is a really good article which is sort of about this issue: User-Centered URL Design by Jesse James Garrett http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000058.php It basically says that URLs can in themselves provide a means of navigating a site (if they are designed to be meaningful and are consistent). So for example when you are at a url such as http://www.macromedia.com/flash.htm one would also expect to be able to edit this to read http://www.macromedia.com/director.htm The content of these urls may actually live somewhere else - but the point is to follow a convention that is useful - and a few virtual locations or redirect pages isn't going to cost the earth and may really improve 'findability' ;) The funny thing is that in this example the flash.htm link works (and incidentally redirects) but the director one does not. A lack of consistency that may be costing money. But if you remove the .htm then they both work :) ben -- blog: http://hydesign.blogspot.com -- work: http://www.seeingdrawing.com -- -------------------------------------------------------------- POSTINGS (in plain text): [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION CHANGES: http://lists.syntagm.co.uk (or send email to mailto:[email protected]) --------------------------------------------------------------