Blog for The Well Designed URLs Initiative

In the hustle and bustle of these holidays, I didn’t manage to churn out all of my planned posts for our introduction series. So with nothing else to publish today it seems only fitting I introduce you to the works of someone I met recently. His name is Ben Coffey and he’s an absolutely brillant kid[1] from the U.K. who shares my passion for User-Centric User Design.

His work that I spoke of is his ebook entitled “Useful URLs” It is available for download at his website inelegant.org in both HTML and PDF formats. Further kudos to Ben for he licensed Useful URLs using a Creative Commons “by-nc-sa“ license meaning you’re free to copy and distribute it as long as you attribute him as author, you don’t use for commercial purposes, and you share any of your own modifications or additions with the same license.  Ben says that Useful URLs is a work-in-progress so he plans on updating it continuously. I’ll be sure to make mention here when he updates it, especially if he adds new chapters.

That said, Useful URLs is both a quick read and also:

Highly Recommended!

• Sorry for calling Ben a kid, but at 23 he’s barely more than half my age, and I still feel relatively young! But the more I talk to him, the more I think I barely know half what he does, at least with respect to programming and the Internet! I’m actually afraid to talk to him about anything else for fear I’ll learn that I barely know half as much on those topics as well!