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I haven't checked hits in a long time, so it was pretty cool for me to jump in and see it at 5999 visits. It's dropped way down over the last few months. I titled the technique after "master pages", and knew it was a misnomer; it's actually a technique for Templated Pages, for ASP.Net 1.1, and after about 11 months in use, I've realized the real value behind the technique:
The day of the global, newspaper-style website is over. Simplicity, specificity in your web application is what's going to keep your users interest piqued. The technology listed here allows you to create an abstract website... then, through parsing out the RequestPath, determine the granularity of the visitor's destination.
As a quick example, you can host domains for MyCoGlobal, MyCoWisconsin, MyCoMilwaukeeWI, MyCoEastSideMilwaukee, each of which will be crawled separately, and may contain data (news? classifieds? adwords?) scoped to the appropriate level. This is accomplished through the development of a single web application. I've probably read a hundred articles on the nextgen web frameworks, and I'm sure that there are other options out there for such a solution, but this solution has made things incredibly easy for creating a domain-scalable architecture.
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