I’ve finished moving my weblog from Blogger to Wordpress. I couldn’t believe how easy it turned out to be. Standards rock!
You’ll also notice that my Permalinks are now ‘cruft-free’.
What are ‘cruft-free’ urls?
These references will tell you more about them.
http://mpt.phrasewise.com/2003/07/26#a534
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/08/15/slugs
http://jaykul.huddledmasses.org/internet/diving_into_obfuscation.php
In short, you will notice if you click on any of my permalinks or categories, the url shows as
“…wlog/archives/2004/04/18/sweet-mama/…”
Instead of :
“…wlog/index.php?=id…”
This helps in making the urls ‘future-proof’ as well as easy to organize. The cruft-free urls you will see from now on my website will all have the format ‘wlog/archives/YEAR/MONTH/DATE/TOPIC”
This will hopefully make my weblog much more easily ‘accessible’ and ’searchable’ to a visitor. More importantly, it will reduce the pains of making duplicate entries in Blogger to maintain categories for my post!