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Chose URLs carefully

11th January 2003

Name your sections carefully (via Adrian) discusses how news (and other) sites could end up adversely affecting their content through badly chosen URL schemes.

Posted 11th January 2003 at 5:45 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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