Anthony Ciccarello / is on Nostr

I'm a software engineer living in Southern California building cool things using JavaScript and other web technologies. I enjoy traveling to other countries and spending time in nature.

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2024-10-25 06:00:02

I’ve noticed a few people recently refer to their top-level pages as “slash pages”.
Honestly my first reaction was “Aren’t those just ‘pages’?”, but I’ve come to find the term kinda fun.
But when people started adding a /slashes slash page, I thought “Isn’t that a sitemap?”.
XML sitemaps are common to aid in search engine indexing, but there are lots of documented examples of human readable sitemaps as well.
Apparently others think of them as “index pages”.
The fun thing about websites is that people can use whatever URLs they want.
You could even translate those pages into your primary language.
But I’m going to advocate my preference to stick with the traditional /sitemap path
So I went ahead and implemented my human readable /sitemap page.
I limited it to the top-level pages but added an indicator that there are sub-pages.
I also still have my /sitemap.xml file but that’s just for the bots.
References:
IndieWeb Wiki: Sitemap
IndieWeb Wiki: Page
slashpages.net
Jamie Tanna /slashes page
Shellsharks /slashes page
J Holmes /slashes page

2024-10-25 06:00:02