Redesigns can be a pain, especially when taking all
the old addresses on the site and establishing new addresses, providing browser
relocations, etc. But government entities - especially state and higher level
agency web sites - ought to realize that various organizations link to the pages and
documents on their site as resources for their visitors. If the agency web site
is a function of providing value to the public, and those links are ways to
facilitate the right kind of public to the right kind of content for the agency,
why crap all over those existing links by not providing some real reference
assistance to those who have an old and defunct link? Why not at least provide
an overall transition sitemap document for all bad links, showing the URL where
the old link and where it is now? Stuff like this:
HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
Please try the following:
- Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
- If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Enterprise Portal Team to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted.
- Click the Back button to try another link.
HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information
Services (IIS)
<!--Keyword Lookup Error: System.Exception: No redirect
URL found for this keyword. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object
reference not set to an instance of an object. at
cwopa.portal.utilities.KeywordRedirect.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) ---
End of inner exception stack trace --- at
cwopa.portal.utilities.KeywordRedirect.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs
e)-->
seems to me to be very counterintuitive to a basic goal of a government web site - which is to inform.
seems to me to be very counterintuitive to a basic goal of a government web site - which is to inform.
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