twist - 9:12 am on Jan 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

Can anyone else share their experience with "http://example.com/blah/page.html" vs "http://example.com/blah/page"? I am about to make this call and I am trying to decide what re-write would be better. Doesn't .html just feel more soothing

Here is sort of how I do it,

example.com/dictionary = example.com/page.php?page=dictionary&letter=a
example.com/a = example.com/page.php?page=dictionary&letter=a
example.com/b = example.com/page.php?page=dictionary&letter=b
example.com/news = example.com/page.php?page=news
example.com/news/2004/12 = example.com/page.php?page=news&year=2004&month=12
and so on...

Off topic, The file page.php looks something similiar to, <? include('content/'. $page .'/setup.php');?> The content folder is 'deny from all'

Almost nobody, besides us, have any idea what .html, .php, .asp or any of the rest mean. Here is the google address you get by typing in 'big long search about nothing',

ht*p://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=big+long+search+about+nothing&btnG=Search

Take that out on a street corner and see how many people can decipher it? Most places have such long address's the end is cut off from view in the address bar anyway, adding an .html to the end just adds to the length.

Try this example, ask some non techie freinds or family (mom or grandma) to guess what the following mean,

example.com (might say, website?)
example.com/dictionary (maybe, website and something to do with a dictionary?)
example.com/dictionary/c (website with something about dictionary and the letter c in the dictionary?)
example.com/dictionary/c.html (you see where I am going with this)

In my opinion, anything you can do to make your address short, simple and to the point is the best choice. Your probably the only one thats even going to pay attention to it anyway. If your lucky enough to get people to come to your website, and on top of that, have them use your address bar to open a page on your site, do you really want them to make five extra keystrokes to type in .html?

P.S. I'll bite, what does this mean,

If you see someone with an “allin” in the referrer record their IP and pages they visit.

Did a search on google and webmasterworld and came up with nothing, what is allin?