Friendly URLs

I recently got into a fairly lengthy discussion with our programmers on the subject of “Friendly URLs”. These are URLs that look like http://www.mysite.com/category/my-post-title-here rather than ones that look like http://www.mysite.com/cms/content.asp?id=uieyyyu9038963hk. Sometimes these are called “static & dynamic” or “clean & dirty” URLs instead.

Ancient History

When you were seventeen and you bought your first car (a brown Mini in my case) it probably cost a few hundred quid and was basically all you could afford. All the really classic cars were way out of of your league, trouble is that 5, 10, 20 years down the line all those classics cost even more now than they did then! Thankfully, the same is NOT true of computers.