Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type
Diveintomark: Mark Pilgrim: ‘Making Movable Type URLs clean and cruft-free.’ [→ READ ]
Just now noticing this August 15 writeup from Mark, thanks to Daring Fireball —
Several people have noticed that my URL format has recently changed. Previously I was using a munged form of the entry title, but now I’m using a simpler form. For instance, my wildly popular How to install Windows XP in five hours or less has the clean, cruft-free URL
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/08/04/xp.Here’s how I did it …
I’m going to have to play with this. My URLs could use some shortening, I know. But dropping filename suffixes (like .html) goes against the grain with me. Hmmm.
2003-12-10 update: Today I see M·r ÷rlygsson’s June 22 howto addresses URL cruftiness as well in Howto: Future-proof URLs in Movable Type.
![[Creative Commons logo]](/images/ccLogo.gif){kind=small}