[Sigia-l] Handling broken links?: RE: Converting static...to CMS

[Donna Maurer]

In referring to 'automatic functions' I was thinking more about automatically
generated lists based on metadata stored with pages or things like that. But
many/most CMS should have a link checking function (but it's unlikely that it
will be able to check links into CMS content from old pages, which is the more
likely problem)

I've previously used the server redirect solution someone else suggested and
it worked well. You will also need some sort of change management process to
encourage users to change their bookmarks (or their behaviour) as you wouldn't
want to keep this forever...

Donna


On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:05:23 -0500, Nicole Colovos wrote
 
> I have a client who is converting a static site. The new site will 
> be much easier to navigate however we do not want to effect users 
> who have bookmarked the HTML pages. Is there a smart way to solve 
> this problem? Donna mentioned in her response that  "...if you are 
> moving to a CMS, you should be taking advantage of some of the 
> automatic functions included."  Is this an automatic function that 
> is standard with most CMSs? Accept my apology if this is an 
> elementary question, I am kind of a newbie.
>