[LINK] 'Citing' web URLs function

[Tim Lister]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 10:50, Ivan Trundle wrote:
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> takes you from a convoluted URL (such as  
> http://ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/ContentManagement/
> ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=53695) 
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> to a short URL (the previous example is  
> 'reduced' to  
> http://www.ala.org/ala/pr2004/prjan2004/alacounciladopts.htm).
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>  Has anyone come across the same  
> problem, either as a developer or user?

yes, i have come across this problem using PostNuke, a popular open
source CMS, and they do have a short URL mechanism because people want
it for citing reasons.

site developers who use CMS packages have to be very careful to "keep it
simple" in every sense, and i would tend to blame an inexperienced and
naive development team, rather than any particular package, if the
results are tragic.

i note that in a brief informal survey of CMS packages, i found that
this was a very open market, as shown by the fact that all the packages
i tested had similar TCOs and it was more a choice of which type of CMS
model was appropriate for the task.

Tim Lister
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