Comments on: How to brand your website’s URL, Part 2: friendly URL structures http://creativebriefing.com/friendly-url-structures/ for the marketer, designer, and entrepreneur Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:51:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Verne http://creativebriefing.com/friendly-url-structures/#comment-28 Verne Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:54:46 +0000 http://creativebriefing.com/how-to-brand-your-website%e2%80%99s-url-part-2-friendly-url-structures/#comment-28 That's very true, Gaurav. Then again, your visitors aren't likely to try to access that specific section of your site directly, and thus, would probably not attempt to memorize the incredibly long query string. Personally, I'll come to terms with having to use an unfriendly URL if it serves a functional purpose, and no friendly alternative is available (as in the case you've pointed out). Thanks for leaving your thoughts! That’s very true, Gaurav. Then again, your visitors aren’t likely to try to access that specific section of your site directly, and thus, would probably not attempt to memorize the incredibly long query string.

Personally, I’ll come to terms with having to use an unfriendly URL if it serves a functional purpose, and no friendly alternative is available (as in the case you’ve pointed out).

Thanks for leaving your thoughts!

]]> By: Gaurav http://creativebriefing.com/friendly-url-structures/#comment-27 Gaurav Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:04:11 +0000 http://creativebriefing.com/how-to-brand-your-website%e2%80%99s-url-part-2-friendly-url-structures/#comment-27 Thats really a nice advice for website owners. But there are many website which is used for Ecommerce purpose and which required login, encryption , sessions etc. and thus after sign in their website looks like - http://www.mywebsite.com/c/myelance/main/mywesite.pl?crypted=c3RhdGUlM0RtZXNzYWdlX2NlbnRlciUyNmZvbGRlciUzREluYm94 Unfortunately there is no altrernative for this because we can't compromise security with looks. Thats really a nice advice for website owners. But there are many website which is used for Ecommerce purpose and which required login, encryption , sessions etc. and thus after sign in their website looks like -

http://www.mywebsite.com/c/myelance/main/mywesite.pl?crypted=c3RhdGUlM0RtZXNzYWdlX2NlbnRlciUyNmZvbGRlciUzREluYm94

Unfortunately there is no altrernative for this because we can’t compromise security with looks.

]]> By: Dev http://creativebriefing.com/friendly-url-structures/#comment-26 Dev Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:59:47 +0000 http://creativebriefing.com/how-to-brand-your-website%e2%80%99s-url-part-2-friendly-url-structures/#comment-26 Another thing to be aware of is dyanamic urls in say Php. It's always better to convert these to static urls for seo and serp purposes Another thing to be aware of is dyanamic urls in say Php. It’s always better to convert these to static urls for seo and serp purposes

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