Redirecting a webpage

June 26, 2006 - 21:06 — Poorhouse

Don't get too excited now Poor-viewers, but Steven Hargrove has written a particularly straightforward and easy to follow guide about how to permanently redirect webpages, for instance if you move them to a new domain address. Nope, not just the HTML meta tag redirect. Proper hardcore 301s.

Email this page

Comments

June 26, 2006 - 21:57 — Laura Loo (not verified)

Nice

I like his PH basic translation: "Hey this page has been moved, here is the correct URL!" I think we should add PH basic to the range of accents/dialects available on Whoohoo.co.uk.

June 27, 2006 - 07:36 — Poorhouse

geek education

You could actually be bothered to read that page? Am impressed. You will be an uberwebgeek yet :-)

To see the exciting power of a 301, check out www.timwayhomecollege.f2s.com. Notice how when you go there, you automatically go somewhere else. Whoo!

Like the dialect idea. Could form part of online computer support. E.g. if (real word) = "mouse" replace with "thing you move pointer with" type stuff? Each phrase of course would be prefixed with "turn it off turn it on again". The possibilities are endless. It would make a lot of people redundant.

Kind of reminds me of when I worked for a terrible UK highstreet tech firm doing computer support. It shall remain nameless, let's call it...ermm...Doxins? I'm sure there was a "virtual team leader" some funny person had programmed you could type stuff into. Can't quite remember what it did, but I would imagine, just like the real thing, nothing useful. Most likely it ignored you and went for a cigarette.