Max Kiesler - Web Design, SOMA San Franciso

Something’s Gone Horribly Wrong - With A List Apart

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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

I was greeted with the first part of the title today when I click on a Goggle link for "Discussing: A Better Image Rotator: A List Apart". Was it because there was a page or script error? Did someone forget to do redirects? I'm not sure, but It looks as if the content has either moved or been removed. In either case as the W3C says, "Choose URIs wisely".

Few things are more annoying than going to your favorite shop and seeing that the shop has closed or moved without giving its new location… The shop owner may have had a lot of good reasons to do this, but invariably the cause for this unpleasant situation is lack of good planning and management.

Same goes for Web resources… “W3C Tip of the day, Choose URIs wisely”

Since I learned of the W3C from A List Apart it surprised me to see them make such a silly error. There has been much discussion of ALAs new design in the blogoshere, most of it dealing with the giant page size and the large unused space under the logo. While these design and usability issues are very important, not keeping your indexed URIs current is just bad web etiquette.

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Comments on this post

Wesley Tanaka  on  09/09  at  08:57 PM

A lot of the w3c tips are quite good.  I usually end up reading them when I validate my pages.