Web 2.0 Websites - 1.0 just say NO!

Roland Tanglao - August 23, 2004 - 4:44pm

It's 2004, yet I still see a lot of brand new websites that are what I call Web 1.0 Websites. Why? There seems to be no reason other than the fact that people just don't know what a Web 2.0 website is.

Web 2.0 Websites:

  • have clean URLs (no .php, .asp, &sdjfldskj=343&ckdjf=5).
  • are cleanly structured.
  • use standards based HTML and CSS.
  • allow anyone to easily update content with RSS feeds from anywhere with a web browser without knowledge of FTP, HTML or any other technical stuff.
  • are search engine optimised from the ground up because of the above four features. No need to pay an SEO firm to increase your rank; just add your own relevant content to increase your rank yourself! This is cheaper and more sustainable than the voodoo strategy of most SEO companies.
  • are no more expensive than Web 1.0 websites.
If a web developer or a web designer pitches you a brand new website without the above Web 2.0 Website features, I suggest that you run screaming in the other direction and find somebody else.

Of course, Bryght Sites are Web 2.0 Websites. And we'd be happy to help you develop a Web 2.0 Website or refer you to one of our partners to do it.

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How is a drupal /node/number

Anonymous (not verified) - September 27, 2005 - 2:48pm

How is a drupal /node/number "clean" url useful at all? It provides you absolutely no semantic information about what the link contains.

It's clean but not semantic out of the box

Boris Mann - September 28, 2005 - 2:53pm

It's clean because it does not include any file extensions or query strings. Clean does not equal semantic, you are correct. You can of course change the name of any page (e.g. "about").

Our new sites are all deployed with pathauto, which allows you to generate page names automatically based on their type, title, user, etc.

How many users actually care

Brandon (not verified) - October 13, 2005 - 7:50pm

How many users actually care what the url is? I've read a lot of conflicting information about this. A lot of people really do click around, make book marks, and they don't look at URL's. Why is it such a big deal if a url have a bunch of query string data or file extensions in it? Is a clean semantic URL really going to improve the quality of life?

Not for users

Boris Mann - October 14, 2005 - 11:40am

Query string data will lower your search engine ranking and/or make it difficult for search engines to crawl. And lacks semantic information along the path like monkey/eats/bananas that result in higher search ranking.

File extensions are an interesting one. I believe that something like monkey.php -- or even -- monkey.html -- adds little value and makes it difficult to migrate between underlying systems and keep the same URLs. So, if you can, abstract away the file endings from day one, and it will be easy to transparently swap systems underneath without changing any URLs.

For bookmarks, URLs don't really matter, but certainly the titles of pages do. If your site all starts with MyDomain - Title of Page, then all the bookmarks will start with MyDomain, making it hard to see which bookmark is which. Flip it around, and you have Title of Page - MyDomain, making it much easier to differentiate bookmarks.

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