A post on how to tell the blogging software from the URL cruft.
Some advice on making URLs a bit more friendly, in addition to clearing out that cruft:
- Don’t use in-page anchors (URIs ending in #whatever) as permalinks
- Don’t use the ? character … ? should be avoided for any persistent resource
- Don’t use the _ (underscore) character, like Blogger and Movable Type do. Many computer users have trouble finding _ on their keyboards. And even for those who can, it’s harder to type than -
May have to rethink my use of underscore — I’m using a Wordpress plugin specifically to change the default ‘-’ to ‘_’ because I’m used to not using ‘-’ in variable names. Hmmm.
