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So I'm rebuilding one of my websites. And in the process of doing so, I get to revisit some things, like my URLs. Please post any ideas you have of a new URL scheme for my site
Here is a current URL for a restaurant on my site:
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http://www.menulizard.com/restaurant/7/deli-works-pizzeria/
/restaurant/ is the name of the PHP file that is actually serving this page.
/7/ is the most important part, the restaurant's ID number
/deli-works-pizzeria/ is the name of the restaurant, url-ified. It is pulled from the database, but it's pure url 'spam' in the sense that it's not used for anything. Despite that, it is very relevant. It's not the name of a random restaurant, it's the name of the current restaurant whose menu is being displayed.
(I also have shortcuts in the form of menulizard.com/7 that forward to the full URL, but I don't use those URLs on my site, only as easy links for other's to use)
So I've only been able to come up with a slight improvement:
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http://www.menulizard.com/menu/7-deli-works-pizzeria/
It does shorten the URL by a few characters, but not much. And the word 'menu' is a bit redundant now. But having said that, to human eyes, I think that improved URL is actually more logical, and better.
If you have any better ideas, post em up!
(Last edited by l008com; Feb 14, 2012 at 04:25 AM.
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So, is there a way I can post URLs and have them show up in the forum as plain text, not as processed, clickable urls?
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Do [code] tags work? I've seen that elsewhere.
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Sorta yeah, but with tons of wasted white space. But I guess it's better than nothing.
So if you're going to suggest some URLs, put them in code tags!
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The second URL is shorter, but as you say repeats "menu". I actually think the first one was good, restaurant is another descriptive term.
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Originally Posted by l008com 
So, is there a way I can post URLs and have them show up in the forum as plain text, not as processed, clickable urls?
Insert a space.
htt p://www.menulizard.com/restaurant/7/deli-works-pizzeria/
ww w.menulizard.com/restaurant/7/deli-works-pizzeria/
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