User-Centered URL Design

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 2, 2002 @10:45AM from the think-people-think dept.

Adaptive Path has this interesting essay by Jesse James Garrett on user friendly URL design. When websites were just static files, they were often named in a friendly way, just to make it easier for the designer. But today, many dynamic web sites and CMS's are based around extremely long and complicated URLs that are difficult to work with (ever try to read one to someone over the phone?). This essay explores the way some websites use redirects and smart naming schemes to keep URL's easy and friendly.

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Mr. Garrett isn't alone in this. by Louis_Wu · 2002-10-02 11:56 · Score: 3, Informative

Well, this was also written up at A List Apart, which is directed by Jeffrey Zeldman, who did an interview for Slashdot in May of 2000, and was a recent subject of controversy here and elsewhere, as he chronicled on his website.
Help me, I've gone link-mad! (But those are all good reads.)