Broken URLs still abound
The mob I work for, eVision, are looking for an extra person, so they put an ad on Seek for the position.
Seek’s URLs are broken. The only way to get a URL that you can link to or send to somebody is to use their own “Email this job to a friend” feature and send it to yourself. That way you get a sensible, working URL, such as:
http://www.seek.com.au/showjob.asp?jobid=6946759
rather than the broken one you get by copying it off the browser (even after clicking through the above), which is something like:
which goes to an error page that complains that your browser doesn’t take cookies (even if your browser does take cookies).
Dick Smith Electronics’ otherwise excellent web site suffers from a similar problem.
Jakob Nielsen’s article URL as UI remains as relevant — and as unfollowed — as ever.
May 24th, 2006 at 23:13
I still find it facinating that Jakob Nielsen’s site doesn’t use many of the best practices though.
Al.