Re: Link Management

>To me, a redirect is an ugly hack. And to me, the CMS should build 
>document relative links (as opposed to root relative) so a site can be 
>dropped anywhere.
>
>This type of feature was one of most important when building our CMS. 
>Since we focused on a storyboard metaphor, we started with the assumption 
>that the site changes a great deal at least when starting -- build it, try 
>it for usablity, rebuild based on feedback, rinse, lather, repeat...

Rob,

Relative URLs are a good thing, but solve a quite different
problem to the one we're talking about.

The situation that causes problems is when a file is moved
from one section of the site to another. This might make the
URL change as follows:

www.site.com/about/background/ --> www.site.com/seminars/background/

In this situation, external visitors who have bookmarked the first
URL would get a page-not-found. This is where the CMS needs to
automatically generate redirects (or rewriting, etc) when pages
are moved in the site hierarchy.

Cheers,
James

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James Robertson
Step Two Designs Pty Ltd
Knowledge Management / Content Management / Intranets

http://www.steptwo.com.au/
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