Thanks a lot. <br><br>The arguments are strong to use DotNet and I'll do the switch shortly.<br><br>nick<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Crisses</b> <<a href="mailto:crisses@kinhost.org">
crisses@kinhost.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>On Dec 20, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
<br><br>> On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:58, Nicolas Pelletier wrote:<br>>> Hi,<br>>><br>>> Is there a way to use a dot in a page name? Group Name?<br>>><br>>> In our case, we would like to have a group named .Net with some
<br>>> pages also<br>>> containing dots (like ".Net Problems" etc).<br>>><br>>> Is it possible and how can it be done?<br>><br>> I don't know for sure, but would assume probably not. Why don't
<br>> you just<br>> follow convention and use "DotNet"? That is used rather widely,<br>> and is<br>> easier to search on. A google query for "dotnet" returns "about" 12.3<br>> million pages. A query for ".net" returns
1.62 billion pages, but<br>> a lot of<br>> those pages have nothing to do with programming, since punctuation<br>> isn't a<br>> part of google searches.<br><br>Also, your TECHNICAL page name may be Main.DotNet
but that doesn't<br>stop you from using<br>(:title .Net Problems:)<br>which will change the title in the window, and for any bookmarks<br>people make for the page, etc.<br><br>However, it will change your search engine rankings, as has been
<br>pointed out. If you stick with "DotNet" it's searchable. If you use<br>".Net" it resolves to "net" even when you use quotes.... not as<br>useful in the greater scheme of things :)<br>
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