Page 47 - Payout Magazine Online Volume 8.1

P. 47

what goes wrong with url’s? pleasing. Some examples are listed below:

While the whole system seems like it would Emails: Mass emails are more and more
work perfect, the internet is a world wide web commonplace in both academic and
and can have its own share of inconsistencies professional settings. If there is a link that
and exceptions to everything. For example, needs to be sent out to a large amount
sometimes going to a certain webpage will
of people, you don’t want that link to
prompt you to go to another one that will
be as long as the email is itself! A short,
just prompt you further to go down the
apt URL is much cleaner and much more
rabbit hole. Eventually, your URL can look like
professional looking.
something like this: www.CompanyName.com/
PowerPoint Presentations: Presentations in
GetStarted/HowToApply/Who-Qualifies/Age-
the work place need to also be clean and
Requirements.html. This URL is massive, and it
professional looking. A slide should only
can likely be achieved after only a few moments
have so many words on it, and you certainly
of intrigued clicking.
don’t want all of those words to be taken
Another likely scenario is that within a up in a disruptive hyperlink to a webpage.
certain web domain there will be different It looks much better if URLs are short so
directories. For your understanding now, these that they are less obstructive and do not
are nothing more than different folders in a obscure the point of your presentation!
filing cabinet that contain different files within
Social Media: Some social media outlets do
them. However, for the sake of a computer to
not allow more than a certain number of
understand where exactly to look, every single
characters in their posts. URL Shorteners
folder needs to have a different name and, you
are the perfect way to take that large URL
guessed it, a different URL. For example, www.
and cut it down to a size that can fit in your
CompanyName.com/directory1/GetStarted
favorite post. This has the added benefit
is a completely different place than www.
of not letting people accidentally skip over
ComapnyName.com/directory2/GetStarted. It
what you are trying to say because you
is understandable why this may get confusing,
have a long and intimidating webpage URL!
and lengthy, rather quickly.
Privacy: Because URL Shorteners replace
what is a url Shortener? the URL for the page you are visiting with
a shorter one, it is also less descriptive of
A URL Shortener is a tool that can take a long the site that people are getting directed to.
URL and shorten it to a much shorter one. If you need to send someone a URL, but
Generally easy to find by doing a basic web you don’t want other people to tell what it
search for them, these types of sites normally is just by the URL that is being sent, a URL
prompt you to type in an existing long URL. Shortener is a clever way to get around
After clicking on a confirmation button, they
that (just don’t forget, clicking on it still
will return a much shorter URL that will direct
takes you to that page!).
your computer to the exact same webpage!
Using a URL Shortener, webpages like www. what NoT to do
CompanyName.com/r/GetStarted/How-To-
Apply/Age/Requirements/download.html Some things you should not do with short
will have URLs that can be as short as www. URLs include forgetting exactly what page the
shortexampleurl.com/39Af3jv. URL will take you to. Also, sometimes a longer,
more descriptive URL is better so that it allows
when would These be useful? people to preview the site they are going to.
Many viruses come from short URLs because
URL Shorteners may be used whenever a long they hide the contents of the webpage they
URL would not be appropriate or aesthetically direct to.