redesigning lclark.edu

url

Redirects

After my presentation today, Tanya Sloan (CAS Alumni) asked a great question:

“I have one question, about the URLs; are they staying the same? For example, we have our Golden Reunion June 12-14, and the URL for that is http://www.lclark.edu/dept/alumni/1959.html. Will that address stay the same, and only the content will move over? Or will that change? If any pages move to new URLs, will people be automatically redirected or will we have to have a little thing that says ‘This page has moved and now lives here?’”

The quick answer here is that we’ll have redirects (without a stop in between to tell the user) from the old to the new. They be a specific type of redirect called a permanent redirect so that when search engines find them, they’ll reassign their references from the old to the new address and over time, we’ll remove the redirects.

Specific to your address above, if I were to guess, the new address would be something like:

http://college.lclark.edu/alumni/reunions/golden/1959/
-or, since they are the same-
http://www.lclark.edu/college/alumni/reunions/golden/1959/

Don’t depend on the above addresses as they could end up different once both you and we get into your site to migrate/reorganize it. Another big difference you’ll note in the addresses above — LiveWhale allows for multiple folder levels within your site.

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