Makes sense, doesn’t it? Move the TeleRead blog—the most popular part of the TeleRead site—to the home page at teleread.com. (Just to clarify a bit: this page’s address will become teleread.com, it will no longer be necessary to add the /blog to the end of the address. All calls to www.teleread.com/blog will be re-directed to just plain teleread.com, so you shouldn’t see a difference. If you have a problem because your browser doesn’t allow re-directs, just use the plain teleread.com address in the future. Paul)
So that’s what we’ll do in the next few days if everything works out. The old home page, shown here with the usual TeleRead headlines, will vanish. But files related to TeleRead the cause will remain.
RSS feeds for the TeleBlog should still work, but if not, just visit our home page and look for them in new locations. What’s more, links to TeleRead within the current /blog directory will direct to the TeleBlog’s new home. Contact Paul Biba or me if you have problems.
New hosting service: Webhead Design
Big thanks to Robert Nagle, meanwhile, for hosting TeleRead on his leased server. He’ll still write for us, luckily, and have a bit more time for that and other pursuits now that Brett Fielo of Webhead Design is donating his hosting services and related tech help.
Like Robert, Webhead fits TeleRead’s philosophy well: “Webheaddesign is a web application design and development firm specializing in developing web solutions using open source technologies.” By all means check out Webhead for your own company’s needs! Webhead has expertise in such areas as PHP, XHTML, CSS, ZEN-CART, MySQL, AJAX, JavaScript, Flash, Motion Graphic, Drupal and video. Contact info is here.
Thanks to Paul for making the Webhead connection!
See “Managing URIs” from the W3C:
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/uri-manage
You should’ve been able to do this without ever even mentioning it to anyone!
Sorry, but it’s not as easy as you think, or as simple as that simplistic little article makes it – especially when changing hosts at the same time.
One problem that article doesn’t mention, for example, is that a browser can be set not to accept redirects. Some people have this set and don’t even know it. What do you do then? It’s always better to tell people what is happening.
this was the last post in my teleread feed in google reader. i imagine i wasn’t the only one this happened to (google still lists 555 subscribers) but i imagine i was one of the few who bothered to track down the new location. never break your old feed!
Hi, Andrew. Pass on the RSS address. Maybe we can yet show up there again. I, too, hate interruptions like that. Thanks. David