Category Archives: Web Developers

For Web programmers, graphics designers, project managers and anyone else building websites.

URL Quote #2: Think about your website’s “public face.”

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

“…one should take an hour or so and really think about their website’s ‘public face.’” -Scott Hanselman on “A Website’s Public Face“

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PageRank

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

SEO: Illuminating the value of URL design If you’ve read many of our other posts here at The Well Designed URLs Initiative, you know that we are strong advocates for User-Centered URL Design as well as for URL Literacy. It’s … Continue reading →

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URLQuiz #1: To .WWW or not to .WWW?

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

As promised, this is the first of what will be many URLQuizes here are the blog for The Well Designed URLs Initiative. This URLQuiz discusses the convention of using a subdomain with the name ‘www‘ to identify a website. As … Continue reading →

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PayPal’s New API: So Close, Yet So Far

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

I got an email from the PayPal Developer Network today announcing PayPal’s new “NVP” (or “Name-Value Pair“) API. Clearly they’ve learned that the complexity of SOAP is counter productive to adoption. Here’s what the email had to say about their … Continue reading →

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Use rel=”spam” to Fight Comment Spam?

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

As I was going through my Akismet spam filter today reviewing the 87 comment spam I got during the prior ~24 hours to ensure I didn’t delete any legitimate comments, it occurred to me that maybe there is a simple … Continue reading →

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Best Practice: Always ID your Heading Tags

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

Here’s a simple best practice. Always ID your heading tags! For example, if you’ve got an <h2> element, be sure to make it <h2 id=”some-heading”>. IDing heading tags is especially important on long documents. Why? Because if you don’t, someone … Continue reading →

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Proposing URI Templates for WebForms 2.0

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Mike Schinkel

I recently had an off-list email conversation with Ian Hickson, the editor of the Web Application Hypertext Technology Working Group specifications (i.e. HTML5 and WebForms 2.0). I was proposing to him that the current WebForms 2.0 be draft specification be … Continue reading →

Posted in Call to Action, Framework Developers, Open-Source Participants, Potential, SoapBox, Software Vendors, Standards Participants, URI Templates, Web App Providers, Web Developers, Web Forms | 8 Comments

Intro, Part 11: Each Post will Identify Audience

Posted on December 27, 2006 by Mike Schinkel

Here at the Well Designed URLs Initiative we plan to address a wide audience and cover a plethora of URL-related topics. If it wasn’t obvious from yesterday’s post we plan to publish content for a variety of roles so we … Continue reading →

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