[Techtalk] website overhaul/broken links

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 00:08, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Howdy chix,
> 
> How practical is it, when giving a large, complex Website a complete overhaul 
> and re-design, to find a way to not break all the links? I'm getting tired of 
> Web content being a moving target, I collect a bunch of bookmarks, and link 
> to articles, and the damn things move, so I'm stuck with a flock of dead 
> useless links.

Easy, actually. That's what the 'moved permanently' and 'redirect'
response codes are for.

I believe that webmasters - at LEAST the 'boss' - should read and
understand RFC 2616 and 2617 and the documentation for their web server.
It's as important as knowing HTML. 

... of course, how many webmasters have bothered to read the specs for
HTML either?


Maybe I hold people to a higher technical standard than they're capable
of. Now that's a depressing thought. :(




Jenn V.
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