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The Well Designed Urls Initiative

Hello and welcome to the wiki for The Well Designed URLs Initiative, a community project to provide patterns and advocate best practices for User-centered URL Design and further to raise awareness of the importance of URL design, especially among providers of server software websites hosting companies, and web application development tools vendors.

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News

New IIS Rewriter: - (2007-01-13) - Added Ionic's ISAPI Rewrite Filter
New Advocacy: - (2007-01-11) - Proposing URI Templates for WebForms 2.0
New Essay: Conventions, Not Constraining Requirements - (2006-Dec-17) - A new essay that discusses how the Well Designed URLs plan to recommend conventions does not conflict with architectural principles of the World Wide Web.
Introduction Started on Blog - (2006-Dec-11) - A multipart, multi-day introduction was started on the Well Designed URLs Initiative blog.
eBook "Useful URLs" Released - (2006-Dec-01) - Ben Coffey just announced Useful URLs Version 0.1. Go Ben!
Updated The Rules Page - (2006-Nov-30) - Changed the discussion rules to take long discussions to the mailing list.
Case-sensitivity Page Added - (2006-Nov-27) - Added a page to discuss issues related to Case-sensitivity.
File Extensions Page Added - (2006-Nov-27) - Added a page to discuss issues related to File Extensions.
SEO Page Added - (2006-Nov-27) - Added a page to discuss issues related to Search Engine Optimization (SEO.)
Movable Type Page Added - (2006-Nov-27) - Added a page with links about Movable Type.
"Rewriting URLs in ASP.NET" Links Added - (2006-Nov-27) - Added links to articles.
Glossary Page Added - (2006-Nov-19) - New Glossary page added.
"Anatomy of a URL" Page Added - (2006-Nov-19) - New Anatomy of a URL page added.
Professional Web 2.0 Programming Released! - (2006-Nov-15) Contains an entire chapter on HTTP and URLs and a section on Future Proofing Urls.
URI Templates - (2006-Oct-28) Take a look at this draft proposal that will hopefully become an IETF Standard. This solves a lot of problems with the oft misunderstood URI Opacity Axiom. If you are a vendor, this draft proposal definitely deserves your support!
Mailing List - (2006-Oct-24) We have a new Well Designed Urls Initiative Mailing List courtesy of Yahoo Groups. Subscribe Today!