/theredstar_somewhere/ and /theredstar-somewhere/ are ok. If something's not ever been seen indexed at a search engine, at least where it's "findable," the gospel truth is that it isn't ok for a site that has hopes of getting rankings. imho you can go ahead and preach it, bro :-) Marcia > -----Original Message----- > From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org > [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Olly Hodgson > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:39 AM > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org > Subject: [thelist] Brackets in URLs > > > Hi, > > Is it acceptable to put brackets ( ) into urls? > > eg: http://www.brewery.com/theredstar(somehwere)/ > or: http://www.brewery.com/theredstar/tree(small).jpg > > Methinks not but I want to confirm it before I preach it as gospel. > > Cheers, > > > Olly. > > -- > For unsubscribe and other options, including > the Tip Harvester and archive of thelist go to: > http://lists.evolt.org Workers of the Web, evolt !