Comments on: Top 10 URL Design Failures of Famous Websites

By: Holly Hayes

Holly Hayes — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:06:37 +0000

Useful and fun post – thanks! I especially like that you didn’t send any link love to Fox News. :)

By: Tobin Crenshaw

Tobin Crenshaw — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:18:49 +0000

Finding what you want on the New York Times site has always been hit or miss.

By: Samsamsonsoy

Samsamsonsoy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:18:03 +0000

Well this definitely makes me feel better. I’m just one person and I love to see “mega-corporations” not getting stuff right. Takes some of the heat off of my mistakes.

Quote: advance the third number to see fox stories directly – even ones that are “pre-launch” on occasion.

Thanks, that could theoretically let you beat some news organizations to the punch. But, you would have to sit and watch that site constantly just for one good break. If I understand what you mean.

By: onreact

onreact — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:36:47 +0000

Ian: That’s true, that’s part of the original definition of a blog. The definition actually states that a blog shows the “newest posts on top”.
That doesn’t mean the date is the most important piece of information though. A blog is not a daily newspaper. It’s more like a diary, you would stiull read an older post without considering it outdated.
You scare away visitors showing a date older than a few days on top before the actual content.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:06:36 +0000

Worpress urls: Correct me if I’m wrong, but the definition of a blog is posts/articles ordered by date. Thats the point of a blog – a date ordered listing. Without date order, its not a blog, its just a website!

So, yes the date the blog entry was posted is important, which is why its in the url.

By: Subdezii

Subdezii — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:54:27 +0000

Its great to be simple(url)thats why i’m.

By: Dhillon

Dhillon — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:36:51 +0000

Its always better to have a proper human readable URL rather than a query string. Though you want secure URLs but the more important is you want humans to access them and read. I have seen pages with so complex URLs that sometimes I just land on another product page while accessing them.

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By: byteme

byteme — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:39:59 +0000

there are those that say your should always hide the urls so it can’t be manipulated or critiqued

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