[thelist] Re: thelist digest, Vol 1 #2774 - 24 msgs

C Williams seahorse at inreach.com
Sun Nov 24 18:49:01 CST 2002


>On Saturday, Nov 23, 2002, at 20:59 US/Central, C Williams wrote:
>>The *only* thing I will say is you will need to stick with the .shtml
>>ending, even if you abandon the server side includes down the road.

>MarsHall wrote:
>This is not true. >

...true?  huh? how are you going to get the search engines to find your page
if you change the extension and remove the old page?  This person is working
on an existing site. You have succeded in incorrectly quoting me and you
have manipulated my message.

>here are many paths to take:
         Or even better, don't use extensions at all in your URLs.
         Read about it at http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html#remove
         The whole article is interesting, too.
         -Max.>

Unless you use a redirect as I suggested (which you snipped from your
comment and needed to be left intact) the existing link will not display the
existing
page after a user searches and finds the page with Goggle, etc.  If  u are
designing for other people, you should consider how their audience will look
at the site.

If they are like the average Joe, then they may go to sites
via bookmarks and if your site has no redirects and you did not use the same
extension they will not see your new page. Is the user going to sit there
and try different extensions to figure out if there is a page?  not using
extensions at all?

So you are going to leave the existing users in the dark
with no redirects? I don't think its a good idea to force users to cut stuff
after the .com or .org etc...to find your page.

Just my suggestion based on my experience.















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