On 1 Dec 2005, at 18:33, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
Comments welcomed for these two matters.
While this idea is scalable, there's a point at which it becomes too abstract.
Where do you draw the line? Personally I think that if I go to x.openguides.org, and there is only one openguide for a city called "x", then it should go right to it.
If there are guides to two different cities called "x", then a disambiguation page should allow the user to choose, preferably with a big world map showing all the "x" that we have guides for.
This new city guide then has x.country.openguides.org or x.state.country.openguides.org as the unique hostname.
For me, the main thing that this exercise should ensure is that current URLs will work in future, and as such, doing something like:
http://x.openguides.org/old-url-etc
be the same, while having:
http://x.openguides.org/ being the redirect page.
The new guide only would then use a longer hostname.
Daniel