Re: Needless folders!

Nope.  I suggested that, but they whined and said it's too confusing for our
clients to be forced to type in a period and the extension of the asp file
(which, sadly, I believe).  I argued my case, but in the end senior
management ultimately agreed with Marketing.

Incidentally, we are running IIS.

Thanks,
Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlton, Mark" <Mark.Charlton(at)saint-gobain.com>
To: "'Mike Taylor'" <lonewolf(at)one.net>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: RE: Needless folders!


> Couldn't you just put the re-direction files in the root and have then
named
> that way.
>
> http://www.whateverthesiteis.com/special.html.asp.php.pl.whatever
>
> That way there would not be lots of directories, granted there would be a
> lot more files, but files are easier to control/track
>
> Regards
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Taylor [mailto:lonewolf(at)one.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 10:18 AM
> To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Needless folders!
>
>
> I work for a company that lays it thick on the marketing side.  We send
> tons of email, fax and snail-mail promotions to our clients.  Many, many
> times, our marketing department wants me to create a shorter URL so the
> people they promote to don't have to type out long URLs.
>
> Instead of:
> http://www.whateverthesiteis.com/specials/special.asp?code=blah&page=blach
>
> They want something like:
>
> http://www.whateverthesiteis.com/special/
>
> So I oblige, create the new folder, which has an index page redirecting to
> the longer URL so we can do our tracking.
>
> The problem is that, over the course of these past few months, we now have
> a lot of silly little folders on our web server taking up space and making
> it more and more difficult to find the folders containing actual
> content.  We can't delete these folders because marketing wants to hold
> onto them for a months at a time.
>
> I'd be interested in how anyone with a similar headache handles this
> situation.  Do you create virtual directories?  Another option?
>
> Mike Taylor
>
>

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