[thelist] moving from static to dynamic content

[Mark Joslyn]

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Personally, seeing a 404 (be that blank-server or "customized") would make
me leave the site and not check any further, possibly this is not the best
of all ideas. What exactly do the "static" URLs you used so far look like?
Any pattern in that?
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The static urls currently are formatted like - no real pattern:

Press_Releases_Resources.php
Press_Releases_PostScript.php
Release_RJE.php
etc..

The dynamic links would be:

Release.php?id=1
Release.php?id=55 
Release.php?id=80
etc..

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What about including site "shortnames" rather than / along with id
references in your database? You could set up your application to treat
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How does shortnames work?

Thanks,

MarkJ