[Sigia-l] Redirects...

[Richard Law]

Hi Carsten,

Inserting a message on the new page is not an option, and the 
interstitial redirect page is a common experience online that we will 
continue to leverage. I was more interested in what new things other 
folks on the list are doing their pages. I'm tweeking the UE on ours, 
which has been up and running successfully for years. Thanks for all 
your responses everyone!

*****
Richard


On Nov 6, 2004, at 11:13 AM, Carsten Siedentopf wrote:

> Hello Richard,
>
>> We're switching from one content/server architecture to another and 
>> we don't want to have to keep the redirects mapping table of URLs 
>> running forever. With that said, we want to encourage our users to 
>> update their bookmarks, so encouraging them to do that in a short 
>> message may motivate them to do so. We will track how many hits the 
>> old URLs receive too.
>
> Wouldn't it be more effective to make the redirect seamless and to 
> insert a small message into the pages to which the user is redirected? 
> While any directly requested page won't show those messages.
> You wouldn't have to care about the time the redirect page is 
> displayed. And users will be encouraged to update the bookmark because 
> of the permanent "ugly" hint on their page.
>
> This is just an idea, never tested it. Any comments very welcome.
>
> Carsten
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