I totally agree with this architecture. You are correct, I am just in the starting phase of the project and in fact still need to define the architecture in detail. Now the question I asked in my last reply is still to be answered? Gaurav Kumar OSWebstudio.Com On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Andrea Giammarchi <an_red@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > > > > Question I was Asked by Andrea- "mod_reqrite or .htaccess is the answer, > but > > I wonder why you choose /user/username rather than just /username a la > > twitter." > > > > I will be using many other aspects of my users something like > > "/projects/username/"; "/gallery/username/". > > well, it does not matter if this service is user based. > > /username/ #as user home page > /username/projects/ #as user projects > /username/gallery/ #as user gallery > /username/etc ... > > it's just a silly point but from user home page you isntantly know if user > exists and you instantly know subsections > > In your way you assume that there is a gallery for that user while he could > have created only projects, without galleries. > So one search failed, while to go in the user page I need to digit /user/ > before, not a big deal but we are in tinyurl and bit.ly era > > Google Code put simply a /p/ as prefix plus the project name plus > subsection > > /p/myprojname/ > /p/myprojname/wiki > > since you are starting now, maybe you could consider this semantic > alternative, if it suits your requirements. > > Regards > > > Thanks, > > > Ash > > > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > check out the rest of the Windows Live™. More than mail–Windows Live™ goes > way beyond your inbox. More than messages<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/> >
