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Mark's Supremely Clean URLs
Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type: Mark Pilgrim has created a great URL scheme in Movable Type for the cleanest URLs I’ve seen yet. Clean URLs are an anal-retentive obsession with me. I found this via a great page at Brainstorms and Raves devoted to URL beauty.
Mark is using MT keywords to store part of the URL. This brings up a frustrating thing with MT: the lack of user-definable fields. It’s sad that I have to waste a field for something as small as this. Just five user-definable fields would improve MT immensely.
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Questioning the Effectiveness of Keywords in URLs
There's an accepted theory in SEO: put keywords in your URLs. This is so accepted, that no one questions it and content management systems routinely have modules, extensions, and allowances for users to create keyword-rich URLs. But, does this work? Does anyone know for sure? I've been casually…
Adding User-Defined Fields in Movable Type
I've complained off and on about the lack of user-defined fields in Movable Type. Today was finally the day I got off my high-horse and messed with some code. Here is a method to add a new field to the MT database. The field can store whatever you like,…
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URL Resources
Friday Feast #55: Friendly, Lasting URLs-: A great collection of links to articles about URLs — how to plan them, how to make sure they make sense, and how to make sure they stick around. Timely, considering my issues of late. Via Anil Dash.
Changing URL Schemes
How-to Change a Movable Type URL Structure and Survive to Tell About It: Oliver Travers has a good tutorial on changing your URL structure, and how to do it without losing any traffic. This is timely for me since I changed the URL structure of this site a few weeks ago…
Smaller URLs
TinyURL.com - where tiny is better!: Make your URLs smaller. I think this is a simple rediection lookup. "By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires." Entering two URLs immediately after one another…
CMS URL and HTML Signatures
Reading USAToday.com over a bowl of cereal this morning, I clicked on story about the Columbia shuttle disaster only to get an error about a non-existent domain. I checked the link: http:// cms-preview-site2-t.usatin.usatoday.com/ tech/ news/ 2003-06-04-colu mbia-foam-test_x.htm Looks like a "CMS preview" link accidently made it's way into production. I always get intrigued…
Human-readable URLs
I've always been a big believer in legible URLs. There's nothing more annoying than a URL that stretches into hundreds of characters — ever tried to email one of those to a mail client that wraps at 76 characters? Additionally, I've written before about the need to support…
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The next best thing to user-defined fields in MT is Brad Choate's Key-Value MT plug-in. Find it at: http://www.bradchoate.com/past/keyvalues.php
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