Webdev: June 2003 Archives
Yesterday a new webblog was born in Lleida. That is something quite special, since until now I haven't found many people writing about Lleida. So I decided to make a short overview:
- Albert Alcaine i Peralta
- After some persistant clicking you will find an outdated but beautifully designed blog
- Braintags
- I guess I don't have to explain anything about my site.
- Connexions Internes
- Xavier is another Linux user, who started his own web log recently.
- Ecografia
- The milk bottles blog of Sinfry (in Spanish).
- El Manicomi
- About overclocking, watercooling, networks, internet and Lleida
- Aleix Portell Llobetó
- Unfortunately he hasn't updated his site since February.
- Postals des del frenopatic
- The new weblog created yesterday. Spookie writes in Catalan about her life in Lleida.
- Quien Pone La Polla
- Fellow geeks!
- stee
- Stee is surely the most active blogger in Lleida. Although she is Catalan, she writes in Spanish to reach more people. I found her site after she wrote about The Cramps.
- Underlog
- GeoURL tels me that the owner of this blog lives 3 miles west of me.
Do you know any other bloggers is Lleida? Just let me know, and I will add you to my list.
[Update 2003.07.22]: Added Albert Alcaine i Peralta
[Update 2003.08.13]: Added Connexions Internes
[Update 2003.09.05]: Added Underlog
It has been a while since I changed the backend of my site fron NewsPro to Movable Type. A side effect of this change was that all pages changed URL, which I considered a minor problem since most people enter the site through the home page (which did not change). Normally I try to keep URL's the same, but the old system used horrible filenames like 1025286960,58049,.html and stored all files in a single directory.
Like I said, most visitors enter the site through the fronpage, but there are some people looking for specific information with search engines. Until today these visitors were presented a '404 Page not found' error page of my provider directly followed by the homepage of my provider. In other words, these visitors end up at a completely useless page, and won't ever visit my site anymore!!!!
Something had to change. First, I wanted to change the error message from 404 (Not Found) to 410 (Gone), since the latter message is more precise. All visitors looking for never-existing files will still get the old 404 message. I read about this code a while ago on dive into mark, and I kept it in mind for using it on m own site.
Secondly, I want to show them another page, which at least links to my site. For the moment I chose to present them the search page, so at least they can search my site for the information they are looking for. I am planning to create a separate error page explaing what has happened in more detail, but until now I will just show the search page.
