One of the things I thought I had gotten right when I relaunched this site was URL structure. I thought I’d put all of my web apps in one sub-folder, all my programming stuff in another sub-folder, common libraries in another sub-folder, etc. However, since then I’ve realized my URL structure wasn’t that optimal. A lot of the sub-folders just made the URLs longer and the mashing together of words made a lot of the URLs hard to read. Examples:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blogstylometrytool\/
\nhttp:\/\/patorjk.com\/colorfader\/
\nhttp:\/\/patorjk.com\/keyboardlayoutgenerator\/
\nhttp:\/\/patorjk.com\/software\/gradientimage\/
\nhttp:\/\/patorjk.com\/software\/colorpalettegenerator\/
\nhttp:\/\/patorjk.com\/typingspeedtest\/<\/p>\n
So, to pretty things up a bit, I’ve decided to change how I’m structuring URLs. My new rule of thumb will be to separate words with hyphens and to only use sub-folders when absolutely necessary. Since domain names are supposed to be compact, I think it makes sense not to include them in my hyphen rule. The new locations of the tools talked about above are:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog-stylometry-tool\/
\nhttp:\/\/patorjk.com\/text-color-fader\/
\nhttp:\/\/patorjk.com\/keyboard-layout-generator\/
\nhttp:\/\/patorjk.com\/gradient-image-generator\/
\nhttp:\/\/patorjk.com\/color-palette-generator\/
\nhttp:\/\/patorjk.com\/typing-speed-test\/<\/p>\n
This seems like a rather superfluous change, but it was just one of those little things that was bothering me. I don’t plan to move anything else unless I make a major update to it, and all of the old links are 301 re-directed. <\/p>\n
The one program I didn’t move was the Text Ascii Art Generator<\/a>. This is because it has a bunch of links pointing to it and I didn’t want to mess up its standing in the search engines.<\/p>\n As for my current future plans, I hope to improve some of my existing web-apps. Unfortunately I was kind of tight on time this past week (I had to work past 9PM three times, I’ve got a lot to do at work), but I did do some mock-up Ext JS layouts for the Typing Speed Test<\/a> program. However, after a little bit of thought, I think I’ve decided I’m just going to extend and change the one I currently have written. I hope to have a new version of it out within the next two weeks. After that, I’m going to try and refurbish another one of my apps. <\/p>\n Lastly, if anyone has any problems with accessing programs using the new URL structure (via old links or whatever), please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the things I thought I had gotten right when I relaunched this site was URL structure. I thought I’d put all of my web apps in one sub-folder, all my programming stuff in another sub-folder, common libraries in another sub-folder, etc. However, since then I’ve realized my URL structure wasn’t that optimal. A … Continue reading URL Structure Changes And Future Plans<\/span>