Astute visitors will notice that we’ve started to implement clean URLs on AtomicGamer 1.0. These actually work very much like the ones that I discussed in my previous post on Optional, But Enforced Parameters. We just decided to do this feature in the current code instead of waiting for 2.0.
So, instead of /article.php?id=919, you can hit /articles/919/dragon-age-origins-xbox-360-review, but the article name is entirely optional. It doesn’t matter much to our visitors, of course, but it should help with search engine optimization.