Rules for creating very attractive URLs

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Rules for creating very attractive URLs

02-22-2006, 10:44 AM,

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Rules for creating very attractive URLs

Quote:...I was doing research for the O'Reilly book I'm co-writing and came across some gushing posts about URLs. About how beautiful they are.

As Mike Schinkel once put it, "Well Designed URLs are Beautiful!" Mike has a strict set of requirements for a beautiful URL - they should point to content that doesn't change, the URI itself shouldn't change, they should be Readable and Heirarchical, they should "mean something", and so on.

And he's not alone in appreciating the finer points of a URL. Tim Berners-Lee himself once wrote a treatise in 1998 entitled 'Cool URIs don't change'. Sir Tim of course is not one to love 'em and leave 'em. He looks for long-term commitment:

full article: http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=121

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