Mark,
On 2007 Mar 20 , at 11.44, Mark Taylor wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Norman Gray wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Cough! I hadn't realised, until I was about to point someone to
>> them, just how _very_ out-of-date the www.starlink.ac.uk web pages
>> were. OK, I knew they were needing a bit of TLC, and we'd been
>> talking about how to do it, in a fairly leisurely fashion, but
>> `hot news from 2004' came as a bit of a shock.
> Not sure if I understand what you're suggesting about the .htaccess
> rules (I don't know .htaccess syntax), but but we don't want
> anything which interferes with existing redirects such as
> http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat -> http://www.star.bristol.ac.uk/
> ~mbt/topcat
Ah, true enough -- I'd forgotten about that. Skip that suggestion,
then. As you say, anyone pointing further down shouldn't have the
links break.
> The front page could perhaps profitably be updated,
Having just today looked at it with the now-abandoned intention of
pointing someone towards it, I think I'd go a lot further than
`perhaps profitably'. It doesn't have to be an overhaul.
See you,
Norman
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