[Techtalk] website overhaul/broken links

[Beth Johnson]

On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 21:23, Jenn Vesperman wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Easy, actually. That's what the 'moved permanently' and 'redirect'
> response codes are for.

Gosh, if it's just a visual overhaul, Cascading Style Sheets would make
the whole thing a piece of cake.  The content stays intact, you just
swap out the style sheet file.  Of course, if one has been relying on
HTML for layout (naughty, naughty) that complicates things.  If stuff
has actually moved, like Jenn said that's what "redirect" is for.

regards,
Beth
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