[thesite] new category proposal: web business
Ron Dorman
rwd at csi1st.net
Fri Aug 24 22:01:51 CDT 2001
Michele Foster wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ".jeff" <jeff at members.evolt.org>
>
> | michele,
> |
> | ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> | > From: Michele Foster
> | >
> | > Jeff, can you remind me (everyone) yet again, if people
> | > have already bookmarked articles, will they get an
> | > article not found if we move an article's category?
> | ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> |
> | yes, they will. i've talked of removing this restriction in the past and
> | might end up doing just that. it makes me feel dirty to do that though
> | because it gives the user a false sense of categorization of the article
> if
> | they visit with the old link which tells them it's in the "foo" category
> | when it's actually in the "bar" category. they click the "foo" category
> | link when they're done reading to find more articles like it and are
> | confused when they can't find any like it. then, they go to the "bar"
> | category and see the article listed there. it makes it look as though we
> | had the category defined improperly on the copy they were reading. they
> | can't expect that the category isn't really tied to the actual category
> the
> | article is in, but instead is tied to the category_id in the url.
>
> Thanks for the clarification. This is what I thought, but I wanted to
> double check. What are our options then? (not just asking you) Most of
> the articles that Issac and Martin mentioned wanting to move to the new
> category are "older", not too active articles. However, Martin's CMS
> article has been quite active.
>
> Is there a server-side redirect solution that we can do? Would we even want
> to do that?
>
how much work would it take to replace the existing category article with an
article saying it has been re-catorgorized with the nwe link?
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