Cool URI’s do not change. It’s true. Another interesting read from the almost infinite resources of the W3C. This must mean my URI’s are not all that cool, given the number of times they change.

Well, I do have a few excuses though. The first being that I have changed domain names a few times, first there was disassociated.com.au which was followed briefly by emulate3.com which has again been superceded by disassociated.com, so directory structures have changed by default a few times.

Mostly though it is bad “content” management, and every time I redesigned the site (which used to be three or four times a year in the past) I would change the directory structure. Again and again.

It doesn’t help matters that I don’t use a 404 error redirect file either.

Hopefully this time I have it right. I am trying to keep things as simple as possible, and trying to avoid using complex directory arrangements, when a far more straight forward system will suffice.

All well and good, but lets see what happens when I redesign again.

Now for those wondering why I was saying URI earlier, this is in fact the correct term for URL. Confused? URI stands for Uniform Resource Identifier, while URL, the far more popular TLA, is Uniform Resource Locator. Officially, according to the W3C at least, URL is an informal term and no longer used in technical specifications.

So there you go. The same W3C document also referred to URN’s, or Uniform Resource Name, and even more intriguingly, a PURL… that I have no idea…

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