a character string used to represent a location on the Internet that can be typed or accessed by a user. URLs often present in human-readable the organization behind the website and the function of the specific page being navigated to, in addition to their purely functional use.
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When I change the name of one page, should all child's of that page, have the url rewritten?
This question is actually three questions, but since they are all related to each other, they should stay in the same question.
First, should I allow a user to change the url of a already created ...
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Is it OK that url is changed after invalid submit of form?
Let's say I am at Create new user page and current url is /users/new.
When I submit this form with invalid data (e.g. mismatched passwords), user is redirected to /users.
Is it OK that user will see ...
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Is domain name important for user experience?
Is it important for the domain of a website to be chosen so that it is simple to type?
For example, consider delicious-dot-ly (delicious.ly).
Would it be fair to say that the difficulty of typing ...
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Fusing words for website name: confusing or doable?
Arguably UX starts with the domainname. Well perhaps a bit far-fetched, so please feel free to suggest what might be a bitter fit than UX.SE for this question, but here it is anyhow.
I'm looking at ...
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Best way of calling urls on my website
I have a website where factories are stored in different categories, but now i was wondering how to call the factories in my urls.
I have an url for showing factories in a category:
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Why do websites use “you are being redirected…” pages?
Frequently after logging in a website - specially old ones - I see the following:
Welcome! You are being redirected, please click here if your browser
does not redirect you.
And similar pages ...
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Should a sentence ending with a URL terminate with a period?
Suppose my web service needs to send a password recovery e-mail message to the user. The message will contain a link (with some disposable token). Something like:
To reset your password please ...
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Using “user” in a URL structure
This question follows on from this question: Better term for “user”.
If it's bad UX to call people using your product "user" then isn't it also bad UX to structure your URL's as ...
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How to handle history events from scolling and other in-page events
On a website that has several sections and subsections on one page, I was thinking about implementing scrolling to a new section as a new browser history event. The main reasoning for doing so is to ...
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Language in url
For language support in a website's url, which oen can be better and cuter?
http://en.example.com
or
http://example.com/en/
Which one is better in SEO? Which one is better in regards to user ...
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What are best practices for a bookmarklet?
I'm creating a social sharing bookmarklet and button that lets users share a link along with an optional text.
What structure is more recommended to use?
this:
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Is my suspicion correct, that QR codes will be a short-lived standard with little effect?
We are all starting to see the square, scannable QR codes on billboards, advertisements, etc.
I have been increasingly thinking that this standard will not last long.
My logic is this: Any handheld ...
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Should I use greek characters in my urls?
I'm setting up a website for a client who's Greece based and I'm not quite sure how to go about the urls.
There are two options I'm considering at the moment:
Use greek characters and have the urls ...
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Do users trust shortened URLs?
I've got some problems with shortened URLs personally; they're really easy to create and not descriptive, so it's fairly easy to make them link to malware. I'm talking about links like ...
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User experience and the trailing slash for directories in the URL?
From an SEO perspective, it may be negligible if you include a trailing slash for directories or not, as long as you set redirects to the chosen one (to avoid duplicate content) and link-build to the ...
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Why do large websites redirect away from their 'pretty' urls?
Sites such as gmail.com and outlook.com both redirect away from their original 'pretty' URLs, only to replace it by an unreadable and unpredictable one. Outlook seems to actively add a server to the ...
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How does a CCTLD affect user behavior?
I'm in the process of consolidating several sites into one. Content that previously lived at http://example.co.uk/ will now live at http://example.com/uk/, content from http://example.fr/ will move to ...
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What do users think of try[productname].com style domains?
From time to time, I've noticed that some web tools/services adopt a domain name of the format try[productname].com. I've also noticed that these are typically run by and marketed to developers (or at ...
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Pagination urls
Currently considering a couple different URL schemes for pagination:
/blog/ -> First result page
/blog/1/ -> First result page
/blog/2/ -> Second result page
Another ...
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Recommended URL structure for products and categories in MVC app?
For example, suppose I have a site with products and product categories. I'm trying to come up with a good intuitive url structure. I want to use name slugs throughout rather than database ids. In ...
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Is it bad to use information architecture to describe multiple topics with duplicate category names?
I'm rebuilding a site from scratch and would like to make better informed decisions about UX and IA.
Is it bad to use information architecture to describe multiple topics with duplicate catagory ...
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What would be the best way to let a user add a URL to a form?
Currently our webapplication simply shows a textbox with no validation at all.
There is a small icon placed next to the textbox that allows the user to open the URL in a new browser window to check ...
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Are long query strings in URLs bad for usability?
Lots of web applications use the query string to store bits of information. This can result in long paths in the url bar. For example:
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User perception on non “.com” top level domains
I am thinking of buying a .co domain as a .com is not available for my company name. While the .co is cleaner and shorter many of us have gotten used to .com.
Do users only remember the domain name ...
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Are Domain Hacks usable?
A Domain Hack is when the top level domain (ux.stackexchange.com) and sometimes the subdomain (ux.stackexchange.com) is used to spell out a word instead of being used as a country code (.us, .uk) or ...
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Should search result urls be accessible and intuitive?
We usually aim for friendly (vanity) urls to help visitors identify where they are in the website, e.g. www.website.com/products/acme-product. But, are there standards here for search results?
At the ...
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How can I reassure users about an unfamiliar domain name?
I have a service, example-service.com.
I have customers customer-a.com, customer-b.com, etc.
We host a service for them on urls like customer-a.example-service.com
Users who are familiar with ...
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User Account Management URL structure
What is the clearest, most logical way to lay out user account management url structure? For example:
/users/login
/users/(signup|sign-up)
/users/myaccount/(edit)
/users/username/(edit)
...
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Domain strategy from a UX perspective?
Having a domain strategy seem to be the latest thing. The discussion about it circles mostly around legal, seo or branding issues but if you want to look at it from a usability perspective - how ...
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Differentiating content with URL
I am developing a site that is going to be used as somewhat of a cloud service, we have a number of customers with a loose connection to each other via a parent organization. The site will look and ...
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Designing blog URLs
I am currently designing a blog application and am having trouble deciding how to design the blog URLs.
Pages (pages like the about page etc):
http://site.com/about
Post URL can be:
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If logged in to an online app, should the main site url lead to the sign-up/in page or directly to the app?
For example, if logged in to Workflowy, workflowy.com leads you straight to the app.
On the other hand, if logged in to Asana, asana.com leads you to the home page regardless. Clicking "Log In" logs ...
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Use subdomains or directory structure for URLs?
I'm curious if it's considered better practice to use a subdomain (e.g. store.website.com) or a directory (e.g. www.website.com/store) when linking to separate sections of a site.
Assuming both ...
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How to choose a slug for “friendly url”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Underscores vs. hyphens in URLs
I'm going to implement a sort of "friendly url" for geography like a regex
/<region>/<city>/<category>?
and then I ...
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Should web users see the http:// prefix to websites?
Chrome seems to have been the first to start hiding the http:// prefix last year, and there seemed to be significant contention. Rather than show the full prefix chrome lops off http:// and displays ...
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Should people be able to change their usernames?
So, you want to change your username to something new. Should an application allow you to do this?
Let's say that you have a unique URL that points to your profile. Let's assume it is human ...
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Redirect root domain to subdomain for a yearly contest
We're on the 3rd year of a yearly contest and have a bit of a problem with recycling the domain.
Year 1
We used "domain.com" as the URL for the contest. We didn't have any expection or forethought ...
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Does a URL fragment identifier have a bad effect on user experience?
In this link from CSS-Tricks, it's claimed that using the hash sign in a URL for linkablity purposes is not a good idea, because browsers will scroll to the item which has its id mentioned in the ...
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Which type of url should I use for a mobile website?
Question 1
Should we give the access to mobile version to all users on desktop. by having a differetn url like http://m.yahoo.com/or it's good to keep mobile version and desktop version access only ...
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Which of these two ways of browsing are better for the user?
I am creating a simple web page application and in my question are involved 2 pages and there are two scenarios.
Scenario No 1
On page1.php I use php with MySQL to get a product's data to the page. ...
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Underscores vs. hyphens in URLs
I'm trying to come up with a page-naming convention so that each page in a web application I'm developing has the human-friendliest URL possible. The current URL structure of the web application is:
...
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Is per-company subdomain or single URL better for web app
I'm writing a web application, the application is for small companies where each company will have multiple users.
What is better:
giving each company a sub domain (so you access the app at ...
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Website Addresses - To Hyphen or Not to Hyphen ?
Eg which is better:
www.ux-exchange.com or
www.uxexchange.com ?
Background: Looking at what's already registered it looks like the non-hyphened versions are more popular. But does that make ...
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How important is it to consider the URL when developing the UI for a web application?
When developing web applications, do user-friendly URLs matter?
Blog platforms seem to be split on the issue. For example, Tumblr posts are frequently in the form blogname.com/post/967129380, which ...
