Towards Next Generation URLs
Towards Next Generation URLs is a very nice article that explains why we should all “clean” our URLs to make our sites easier to navigate for our end-users.
Some suggestions the author makes are:
- Keep them short and sweet.
- Avoid punctuation in file names.
- Use lower case and try to address case sensitivity issues.
- Do not expose technology via directory names.
- Plan for host name typos.
- Plan for domain name typos.
- Support multiple domain forms.
- Add guessable entry point URLs.
- Where possible, remove query strings by pre-generating dynamic pages.
- Rewrite query strings.
- Remove extensions from files in URL and source.
- Automatically spell check directory and file names entered by users.
