rubenski - 11:46 pm on May 16, 2005 (gmt 0)

I've been thinking about these concepts a lot lately when redesigning my site. My previous design had become unusable because of the precise reasons mentioned in this thread. I didn't plan for growth.

How would you order computer-related articles in the categories internet, networking and hardware?

My current dir structure looks like this. 1 and 2 are two pages from the same article.

/articles/article_title/1
/articles/article_title/2

This doesn't reflect the internet, networking and hardware divisions that exist inside the /articles categorie. Would you sub-divide this into

/articles/hardware/article_title/
/articles/internet/article_title/
/articles/networking/article_title/
?

I have decided not to do this, because I learned from other threads that keeping pages close to root is preferable. Is this really outdated information? I have been reading this article [searchengineworld.com]about URL length and was hoping to keep URLs short.

The latter option does better allow for future growth, right?