Photography by Leonard Whistler

URL Shortening - www.len778.ca

I created www.len778.ca to redirect viewers to my main website at www.LeonardWhistler.ca.

I use the www.len778.ca web address on my business cards because it is short, easy to remember, and easy to enter into the browser address bar. I chose len778 because Len (Leonard) is my name, and 778 is one of the telephone area codes in Vancouver BC, Canada - my home city.

There are online URL shortening services such as TinyURL, Bitly, ShortURL, etc. However, for my needs, the URLs they generate are still too long and difficult to remember. Below is a TinyURL generated URL compared to my shortened URL for www.LeonardWhistler.ca.

Below is the index.php file on www.len778.ca with the PHP code I use to redirect viewers to www.LeonardWhistler.ca.