Our page is set up so that we don't get a lot of "dead wood". We use high school sports.net for our sports schedules and just link directly to them. The only complaints we get are "why isn't the September cafeteria menu up?", or "why isn't the last school board meeting minutes posted". My general response can range from "I don't have the information available yet to a rather smart-a#$ed response that lets them know I've got more to do than update a cafeteria menu that their kid should've brought home on paper. I told one parent last year that I would be glad to show him how to update the cafeteria menu and would give him a username and password so he could log in to post the updates. The butt chewing was worth it.
-----Original Message----- From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Williams, Scott Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:58 AM To: tech-geeks@tech-geeks.org Subject: [tech-geeks] Webpage Deadwood Over the years I have collected many webpages for the school that I do not use or are obsolete. <rant> Unfortunately, my viewers can never remember the URL to our present site, so they Google (gotta love Google) and they find pages up to 8 years old. What happens then is they click on them and get the 2002 Football schedule and then they call the school saying we can't seem to keep our webpage up to date. Personally I think they should have their welfare check or unemployment check taken away so they wouldn't have all this spare time. But hey, that's just my opinion. </rant> If I delete the deadwood then they will get 404's, which maybe just as bad, should I put a re-direct in on all these obsolete pages? What do you guys do? SCott | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
