[WEB4LIB] Page redirects (was LibraryLand Index update)

[Pam Davies]

> Does anyone have any input or opinions as to the best method I should use?
>  I want to insure that users get to the new page, but I want them to also
> realize that the URL has changed.

I used to believe in redirects everywhere, but now favour a good 
helpful 404-message (see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/x ) which 
will, one hopes, get people to update their bookmarks!  It also means 
that any linkchecking software will find and report the dead links.

Despite emails to sites known to have links to us, we still get an 
alarming number of "failed requests" for the "CURL" pages which moved 
from our site in 1997 and the "library gateway" we dismantled and 
replaced in summer 1998, as well as people following links to the 
URLs we changed this summer.

Pam
 


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Pam Davies, Senior Assistant Librarian, IPR Officer 
Edward Boyle Library, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
p.m.davies at leeds.ac.uk    tel: 0113 233 5543   fax: 0113 233 5539