Setting up redirects on your site
It is good web practice to set up redirects on your old site's webpages. This also applies if you make changes to the left menu in your current site. Users may have saved favourites that will no longer work, or may be used to a certain path to find the information they want. Redirects are much friendlier than the 'page not found' message.
To place a redirect in an old page, delete all content on the page and write a message such as
Please note: this page has moved. Please go to our new website address at
http://www.unisa.edu.au/researchsupport/default.asp
If you would like to set the page to redirect automatically
- In FrontPage, go into the Code version of your webpage
- Insert the following script after the <HEAD> tag:
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="5;url=newurl">
(where content = "time to wait;url=new url here") - Go back to the Design page and add to your message that the page will redirect in 5 (or whatever) seconds
- Test the page in the browser
- Publish the page