[Typo3-dev] Re: OT: RealUrl importance?

[stefano cecere]

from my point of view and for the webprojects i'm going to develop (big 
clients), it'll be very important to have professional and goodlooking 
URLS (and easy to setup)..

i was going the sports.0.html way.. but things were getting hard to 
manage as long as i was having hundreads of pages in multilingual!
many times (and i was <50 pages) i found myself "out of aliases".. that 
means that i had already set an alias name somewhere else and typo3 
renamed the new one in other ways.. many times i even forgot to set the 
alias (and it would be hard to explain to all my client's editors to 
set an alias name for every new page they create)

i don't think it's much a question of peaople remembering urls...
for me it's more related with sending around (maybe via email ) urls 
that "speaks by themself"
all other opensource professional cms have this feature (ez, mambo, 
plone..)
it'll really a good added value to the whole typo3 projects (ehi, most 
of the clients and users just see the frontend!!)

well.. at the end: for me realURL is an important feature
there are two active developers working on this extension (last cvs 
update was 5 days ago, so they are _really_ working on it), typo3 was 
realURLed some weeks ago.. i don't think it's something we can miss for 
too long. :)

hug everybody
stefano



On 16 Jun 2004, at 16:34, Jan Bruvoll wrote:

> Karsten Dambekalns wrote:
>
>>> It is important because <your site>/sports/ means something to 
>>> users, <your site>/483.6.html does not.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but what is wrong about
>> <your site>/sports.html
>> or (depending on the setup)
>> <your site>/Sports.0.html
>>
>> Well, it's probably a philosophical thing... :)
>>
>>
> Hmm - maybe for small sites, but for larger sites you're digging 
> yourself a big hole if you expect users to remember -anything- exact. 
> To build further on the sports idea - think about 
> /sports/football/premier_league contra 
> /sports_football_premier_league.html or for that sake again the 
> dreaded /123.0.html. People tend not to remember numbers, however they 
> can very well remember things that they relate to in real life. They 
> can also barely remember to put slashes between words, but don't 
> expect them to remember your particular concoction of underscores, 
> hyphens and version numbers. It's all about usability - from a 
> technical standpoint I don't care so much (actually I do - looking up 
> URLs and matching them internally eats resources unecessarily - but 
> hey, are we there for the computers' sake or the other way around? 
> Iron is cheap.)
>
> Jan