Trying to create a URI in FrontPage2002

[Des]

I happened to come across an article by Tim Berners-Lee about URIs and
why they are 'good'. http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI. All sounds
good to me.

I have a newsletter that I want to make available as
www.mydomain.com/newsletter. This can be bookmarked by clients
'forever'.

The actual page is at www.mydomain.com/news/newsletter.shtm. To create
the URI, I assume that on a Unix box I would simply create a soft-link
from the URI position to the real storage position.

However, the host is an MS box. How do I acheive the same effect?

Ps. Using FrontPage 2002, publishing via file and ws-ftp.

 

[Steve Easton]

1. You realize that the w3c article is 6 years old??
2. Why can't a visitor simply "bookmark" ( add to favorites ) the link.??


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[Thomas A. Rowe]

That reference is from 1998.

This is easy to do just create a folder structure in your web that you will not have to change, this
way a the URL will never change.

Another approach is to make the newsletter a PDF document that users can download and store locally.

However keep in mind, that unless you own your server, you have to pay for space hosting your site,
which is not even being considered in the reference as a reason for why people delete content, that
is outdated.

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[Des]

1. You realize that the w3c article is 6 years old??

Yes, I saw that. Is there some part of it that is no longer valid or
relevent?

2. Why can't a visitor simply "bookmark" ( add to favorites ) the link.??

My understanding of the article was the separation of the reference as
seen by an external party and the actual location on the web-site.

I want the freedom to move the newsletter page around *within* the
site at the same time maintaining a URI that would stay constant
externally. Isn't that what URIs do, or have I missed something?

Regardless, of the philosophy, is it possible to get the same effect
as a UNIX link on a MS host?

 

[Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FP]]

Create a folder in your web called newsletter, put a page in it called
'index.htm', and put a redirect in that page to the current location of the
newsletter:

In HTML view, add the following to the Head section:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="6;
URL=http://www.mydomain.com/news/newsletter.shtm">

The value given to 'content' is the number of seconds before the refresh
will take place; the value given to 'URL' is the page you want your visitor
sent to. You may also want to include a text link to the page in case your
visitor's browser does not support the 'refresh'.

 

[Des]

In HTML view, add the following to the Head section:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="6;
URL=http://www.mydomain.com/news/newsletter.shtm">

Thanks, I'll try that.