[Sigia-l] Subdomain usability

[David (Heller) Malouf]

I love subdomains and usually "assume" they exist and love when they do.
yahoo uses them very well, and I think they are great.
why? b/c typing www.yahoo.com/maps is longer than typing maps.yahoo.com

but also, it makes a clearer association that the functionality is
somehow independent, that it has a "root" of its own. i don't mean
that in the technical sense, but in the this is a "home page" landing
page sense.

-- dave


On 6/6/06, Skot Nelson <skot at penguinstorm.com> wrote:
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> On Jun-5-2006, at 12:11 PM, Kenneth Bryson wrote:
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> > Ultimately, they need to make sense and can be used in the same
> > fashion
> > as redirects.
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> They need to be integrated into a clear, consistent communications
> strategy as well. It must be *obvious* what content would, for
> example, be on the investor.bank.com zone versus the www.bank.com zone.
>
> Why would I bookmark one and not the other?
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> Scott Nelson
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