Work experience

As I’ve changed CMS from etomite to wordpress, friendly url’s are changed a bit. Essentially  shortened URL and removed “.html” from the end.

But what to do  with old links? I had two options:

1. Create redirects to updated URLs
2. Make use of 404 error page

I’ve chosen 2nd option, as it is more elegant and requires a few work – more automation.

So, I was thinking: how can I redirect users comming from old URLs to new ones? And here I thought – if link is old one, I get 404. Here I can get that old link and redirect to a new one. Of course that idea is not new, so I’ve googled a bit and found ready made solution:  Adding Search results to Wordpress 404 pages

This is more better than moving automatically, because not all 404’s would be from old links and if someone mistypes address – he/she will get search results.

At last I had some free time from my job plus origami plus freelance web projects and renewed this blog. At last I’ve migrated from etomite to wordpress. It was very painful migration as I was importing from RSS feed, so if you find some mistakes in blog – inform me ;)

And talking about this blog – It was almost dead in recent days. I hope it will arise like phoenix from ashes :) Expect some more web experience articles.

Btw, all RSS subscribers – I’ve moves RSS feed to Google feedburner, so please update URL in your feed readers.

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