User-Centered URL DesignJesse James Garrett: “The advent of content management systems has been a boon in many ways, but the readability of URLs is not one of them. Databases don’t give assets names; instead, they need formulas for retrieving those assets. CMS developers, figuring nobody reads URLs, simply embedded those formulas right there. Sometimes that would manifest itself as just an inscrutable number; at other times, the URL would include a whole string of parameters needed for the CMS to function.” Not CityDesk, of course! The first release of CityDesk used inscrutible numeric file names like all the big CMSs. But we actually listen to our customers, and fixed this in the very next release. |
