Friends set up a sites.google.com site with a URL that they like. I've made them realize that Google Sites won't do what they want. So I want to remove it from Google, and make it into a wordpress site, or whatever. Problem is, they want to keep the URL. Anyone know if (and how) that's possible? If I shut down their google site, will that free the URL up for me to use elsewhere (like on GoDaddy)? [more inside]
posted by omnigut on Dec 9, 2009 - 5 answers

How do I prevent Firefox from adding 'www' and '.com' to local URLs? [more inside]
posted by le morte de bea arthur on Jan 7, 2009 - 7 answers

What's the best way for me to create human-readable urls for a Wordpress site? [more inside]
posted by drjimmy11 on Nov 25, 2008 - 11 answers

Which is better? A vanity url or a backslashed url. For instance, www.awesometown.com or www.mycompany.com/awesometown Mind you, this is an advertising question. With a product/property it seems smarter to use a vanity url for name recognition, but I understand diluting the brand is a bad idea. What's the best practices you've seen or opinions?
posted by Davidissimo on May 16, 2008 - 22 answers

Who really owns a domain? If a company registers a domain under the name of an individual, who really owns the domain and what are their rights? [more inside]
posted by missmagenta on Mar 21, 2008 - 6 answers

Is there a way to open multiple favorites in Firefox from the Windows XP file Explorer window? [more inside]
posted by bbranden1 on Sep 12, 2007 - 2 answers

One certain site always times out for me. It does not for other computers on the same network. What (if anything) can I do to get it to work? [more inside]
posted by Tuwa on Jul 5, 2007 - 13 answers

I send a lot of URLs via email. Inevitably the url's are so long I have to first go to a site like tinyurl.com and truncate the url and then copy that new url and then paste that into my email. Are there other options? [more inside]
posted by zenpop on May 12, 2007 - 10 answers

I am in mod_rewrite hell. What a syntax! Can someone smarter than me have a look and tell me I'm not crazy? Thanks! [more inside]
posted by rokusan on Mar 2, 2007 - 8 answers

What's the easiest way to convert a plain text list of URLs with descriptions into an HTML page of clickable links? [more inside]
posted by jack_mo on Feb 21, 2006 - 9 answers

TechnoDunce question: why do some URLs start with "http://www.blah" and some just start with "http://blah"?
posted by tristeza on Jul 13, 2005 - 33 answers

Stoopid Safari question: URLs often only load on the second try. I type in the URL, hit enter, the URL disappears, no page loads, any URL that was there before reappears. [more inside]
posted by Mo Nickels on Mar 8, 2005 - 13 answers

So what's so cool about del.icio.us? I don't get it. [more inside]
posted by gyc on Jan 6, 2005 - 53 answers

How do I load a series of different URLs into different windows/tabs as fast as possible? The reason I ask is that a regular train ride I take stops for about 15 seconds at a station with wireless access. I'd like to load pages which I can then read for the rest of the trip but even opening new windows and launching bookmarks is manual and slow. Any ingenious ideas?
posted by vacapinta on Nov 15, 2004 - 11 answers

HTML crisis: I use relative URLS on my blog because pages archive in different files- for example, a tag for a JPEG would be /images/image.jpg inside image tags. Because I use that first slash to make the relative URL work, all image tags are broken when you type or link to my site without a "www" in the url. In other words, "www.mysite.com" shows all the images fine, but "mysite.com" loads the site with little red x's everywhere. Solution? [more inside]
posted by XQUZYPHYR on Oct 27, 2004 - 6 answers

In Movable Type, how do you jigger it so the URLs of the individual entries display the title of the piece, as opposed to the entry number?
posted by solistrato on Sep 24, 2004 - 3 answers

What should be done (if anything) about a site that is capitalizing on my site's distinctive name and search engine ranking to popularize itself in a way that is totally unrelated to my site?

I run an RSS feed directory with a distinctive name, reasonably good content, and a decent rank in various search engines. Last night a "watch" application told me that 2 new sites now contain my site's domain name in their URLs.

I took a look at both of these sites, and they are simply embedding my domain name in their URLs so that they have a chance of matching on searches for the name. The actual pages are throwaway filler (as is the entire site).

I'm flattered and insulted.

My site's name is not a trademark (perhaps it should be), and I don't want to draw artificial attention to it by posting a link, and I certainly don't want to link to the offending sites.

Has anyone else had something like this happen to them? What can be done?
posted by jeffbarr on Aug 25, 2004 - 0 answers

I'm worried this may be too specific for AxeMe, but here goes:

Is this sort of approach to Movable Type urls really a good idea? I've used extensions on my webpages since 1994, and dropping 'em for extended directory structures seems well, weeeiiiiiird. Has anyone here done this? Do they recommend it? Pros? Cons?
posted by keswick on Feb 6, 2004 - 11 answers