URLs

[dubiousdisc]

I used to want subdomains (I suppose because everyone else seemed to be using subdomains and like Espo pointed out it DOES feel "grander", haha), but my hosting would make me pay extra for each subdomain, so I went with folders. This limitation might have been for the best though, since I like how using folders the URL goes from biggest to smallest - it makes the most logical sense to me.

[Destinie]

I used to want subdomains (I suppose because everyone else seemed to be using subdomains and like Espo pointed out it DOES feel "grander", haha), but my hosting would make me pay extra for each subdomain, so I went with folders. This limitation might have been for the best though, since I like how using folders the URL goes from biggest to smallest - it makes the most logical sense to me.

Similar situation here: I used to want to do subdomains but I just default to folders. I kind of like it that way, though, to let me know that site is a part of the larger site. For example:

http://love-gala.org/shrine Where the shrine is part of the Love-gala collective

or

http://fans.nyarth.net/site where it is part of this collective.

It's also easier to do folders. xD

[nyxmidnight]

I'm sort of in between. My main fandoms get their own domains (devilchild.ca and nyxslounge.ca).

At the root, I place the big fansite: http://nyxslounge.ca

Multipages websites/fanlistings/shrines get their own subdomains: http://amala.nyxslounge.ca

One pagers get a folder, but on my one pager subdomain: http://onepage.nyxslounge.ca/dojima

I like to sort things It helps that I have unlimited domains/subdomains.

[Sarah]

I use subdomains for my shrines. It makes them seem more special, or as Espo said, more important. And since shrines are bigger sites (than say a clique or standalone FL) they deserve the little extra effort it takes to make a subdomain. (Having to log into cpanel to make a sub. whereas a folder I can just create in the FTP client.)

But that is just me, and there is no right or wrong way to do it. There may be certain factors that make one better than the other, like the example Larissa gave, but I think preference is the major factor.

[Cherri]

Because I can't stop making shrine and have a ton, I put them into collective sub domains.

http://fan.piratesboard.net or http://one.pirateboard.net or http://list.piratesboard.net
And then the subject gets listed after. Though I do like the way http://lulu.piratesboard.net looks rather than http://fan.piratesboard.net/lulu but I deal with it. Just a matter of preference. I have way to many to fix it now and don't have the drive to do it. That's way to many sub domains. Hence the reason I did it the way I did it.