Jarek (and any other budding webmasters wanting to move their sites or have recently done so)
A couple of hints to consider as a webmaster: Be sure to contact GFA to get your home page address updated there too (and also on the new www.soaring.org.au site if applicable). Also, get onto Google and enter in the URL for your old web site into the search text box and in addition to returning a link for that page, Google also has another link which allows you to find sites which link to your site (and for which you thus need to contact their webmasters to fix the links to point to your new site). There are at least 30 pages which point to the old main GCC page. You will want to put redirect messages on EVERY page in your old site, just so people don't have to try and find where you've moved to (and while search engines re-crawl the web and rebuild their indexes). It's also possible that other sites have "deep linked" to sub-pages on your old site rather than the home page. e.g. at least one site (http://acro.harvard.edu/SOARING/JL/TP/resources.html) points to the resource.htm page on the old GCC site. Another potential dead links (or one that points to outdated content which perpetuates links to the old GCC home page). If your site uses static HTML pages (rather than PHP or ASP) this can be very tedious by hand, so I devised a simple bit of Javascript which allows you to drop the same file onto as many different pages as you have on your old site (assuming the old and new servers are completely different), and it automagically puts the right new URL onto the returned page so that you can just click-through (again, assuming the site structure doesn't change during the move to a new web server, which is true in most cases). For an example of this, click to http://www.ozemail.com.au/~gliding/links.htm which was our old links page. If you do a View Source on the page, you can see how the Javascript works and can alter it to suit your purposes. For a fast way to propagate this to all your pages, COPY YOUR OLD SITE TO A TEMPORARY DIRECTORY FIRST, then go to Command Prompt, CD to the TEMPORARY directory. You can do a DIR /B *.HTM to get a list of all the files and redirect it to a file. Then, edit the resulting file to put an appropriate COPY command at the beginning of the line, which copies your MASTER redirect file to all the exisiting file names. Then all you have to do is FTP these files (now identical contents in each different filename) back to your OLD server. Sorry to bore everyone expecting gliding content, but I've been through this a few times before and it's nice to try and get the old site nicely transferred to the new one rather than leaving lots of "dead links" behind and having a mess to clean up. Cheers Jason > I am sorry:www.gliding-in-melbourne.org it is. > > Regards > Jarek > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Brian Wade > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:04 PM > Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Geelong Gliding Club web site new address > > I think he means www.gliding-in-melbourne.org > -- > Brian Wade > > Personal Computer Concepts > Control SPAM with MailWasher Pro > > Uniform Time > http://www.uniformtime.com.au > > PO Box 114 INDOOROOPILLY QLD 4068 > Ph: 07 3371 2944 Fax: 07 3870 4103 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jarek > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 8:35 PM > Subject: [aus-soaring] Geelong Gliding Club web site new address > > Hi, > > Geelong Gliding Club web site has a new home: www.glidining-in- melbourne.org > Please adjust your links and bookmarks. > > Best regards > Jarek Mosiejewski (webmaster) > > -- > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > * To Unsubscribe: send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus- > soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the > body of the message for more information. > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.501 / Virus Database: 299 - Release Date: 14/07/2003 -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
