Re: Opinions on site redesign

What I have done with good success in the past is to use (assuming your
server allows this) an .htaccess file with 404-redirect instructions -
basically,  after the directory redesign, the htaccess file will redirect
404 errors to a custom page that tells or sends people to the main index
page with an apology and instructions to look for the item through the main
page.

Dandello

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Heliker <Michael.Heliker(at)ncrel.org>
To: 'Hwg-Techniques' <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 5:50 AM
Subject: Opinions on site redesign


> hello all,
>
> At work, we redesign/change our sites fairly frequently. Logically
> speaking, it would make a lot of sense for us to rearrange the directory
> structure. However, we are in the education field and what we often end up
> doing is leaving many of the same file/directory names because we're
afraid
> that people have indicidual pages bookmarked and we don't want to tick
> off/annoy our audience. It's frustrating because we either end up with a
> LOT of 'kruft' on our site (old pages or lot's of redirects). Mind you, we
> have absolutely NO evidence that people are bookmarking ANYTHING on our
> site, let alone specific pages. We do, however, have many links throughout
> our site and we don't want to break those in the process.
>
> I want to be able to come up with an argument that we don't have to
> do this. That if we redesign our sites, I want to say it's "ok" to
> restructure it, too. Sometimes, it doesn't matter. But, sometimes it just
> makes a lot of sense.
>
> I wa curious what you folks think of this sort of thing and how you
> deal with/rationalize this sort of thing.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Michael
>
>
> > --------------------------------------
> > Michael Heliker
> > Web Designer
> > Technology Systems Department, NCREL
> > http://www.ncrel.org
> > --------------------------------------

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