Ok over the past few weeks I’ve been chatting to a few people about the make-up of a URL. From use of top-level domains to use of special characters in a domain. From these chats I’ve come up with my “top 10 rules for designing urls” list.
Ok over the past few weeks I’ve been chatting to a few people about the make-up of a URL. From use of top-level domains to use of special characters in a dom... more
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Make Them Clean
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Do NOT use special characters, except for hypens
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Make URLs simple
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Use a URL only once per page, have a URL per page
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Use slashes “/” as real directories only
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All URLs must be both human and machine readable
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Numbers should be used sparingly
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Unless pages are likely to have the same domain, do NOT use dates
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Once you have set a domain structure (DS) keep it this way
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If you do change DS use 301 (moved permanently) redirects from old URLs DS
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