Adobe Direct Navigation FAIL

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Dreamweaver.com forwards to the wrong URL.

I was researching web design software this morning. Knowing that Dreamweaver is one of the more popular applications, I typed Dreamweaver.com into my browser. Here’s what I saw:

Dreamweaver

Ouch.

Yes, Adobe owns the domain name Dreamweaver.com, but it forwards it incorrectly. The correct URL for information about Dreamweaver is adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.

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5 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by Andrew Allemann

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  1. George Kirikos
    October 15th, 2009 | 12:01 pm

    It works correctly for http://www.dreamweaver.com, but leads to the 404 page without the “www” — just sloppy redirection.

  2. Andrew Allemann
    October 15th, 2009 | 12:14 pm

    George – I see, a common problem. I assume most techies using direct nav don’t type www, but maybe I’m wrong.

  3. Latest Domainer News
    October 15th, 2009 | 12:46 pm

    Adobe Direct Navigation FAIL – http://tinyurl.com/yzxmgon

  4. R.S
    October 15th, 2009 | 5:35 pm

    http://www.flashplayer.com

  5. Matt
    October 16th, 2009 | 5:18 am

    yes the very common canonicalization issue, most websites miss out on setting a canonical url, consequently miss out on passing on link juice and in this case also usability.

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