Pretty URLs
Site update
January 17th, 2009, 10:15 amTags: mysql php SEO
Just updated the software on this site in order to use the date and title of an article as an argument to the URL, rather than the article's id. The id is not only non-descriptive, it's also SEO unfriendly (not that any search engines have found this yet...).
Now instead of seeing something like "http://blog.orangellous.com/index.php?article_id=2" you should see something like "http://blog.orangellous.com/index.php?article=2009_01_17_Pretty_URLs".
It's a minor change and comes with the caveat that if write two articles on the same day with the same title, I'll only be able to retrieve the first, but to be honest, if I do something like that I should be punished severely anyhow.
One other quick edit - I've added the number of articles for each month to the archive listing at right. woo.
