On 7/16/07, Tom Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey - as the person who developed the URL stuff for the programme
information pages project (PIPs - hence pip in the URL), I can assure
you that the one you're proposing is not generally better.
That's me told! Though thank you... ;)
In terms of music artists (I rediscovered the great band Bliss this weekend,
and found three different Bliss's within the same last.fm page, of which I
was only interested in one, and the pictures and everything is all really
very messed-up) then perhaps disambiguation pages work like wikis.
www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/bliss/ is a disambiguation page, leading to
www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/bliss_1/
www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/bliss_2/
...etc
This also has the benefit that you don't need a database call to link to an
artist page on /music - just call *str_replace(" ","_",strtolower($artist));
* instead. Not that it's quite that easy, of course.
On 7/16/07, Kim Plowright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
James - an aside - you need to talk to the programme info people in
FMT, and maybe the person in VMPS who is looking after the work done
for drama/comedy TV on this kind of stuff. There's a good four year
history on this one!
I don't doubt it. The nice thing about being in a new job is that you can
ask damn stupid questions, and then be told the sane and sensible reasons
for why things have been done the way they've been done. Generally - though
not always - there are sensible reasons why, and that's cool.
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http://james.cridland.net/
