REAL simple HTML query

squeech · December 23rd, 2003, 09:56 PM

Greetings all,

I have a real basic question that isn't in my HTML book (it's pretty old

) and I seem to be google retarded today:

What is the best way to do a redirect on a webpage. I have a free webspace that I have used for a long time, and now I want to send that traffic to my new webserver that I just set up.

Is it best to do this in HTML, Javascript, voodoo magic?

TIA

golfcart · December 23rd, 2003, 10:11 PM

This should work. The '3' is the time in seconds that it will wait

**RobRich** · December 23rd, 2003, 10:46 PM

CONTENT="3"

golfcart · December 23rd, 2003, 11:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by RobRich
CONTENT="3"

I beg to differ

I thought it was odd too

squeech · December 23rd, 2003, 11:20 PM

MSDN and other sites show the content tag without any quotes (making sense since it is not interpreted as a text string).

Thanks for the info guys! That should do the job perfectly!

**RobRich** · December 23rd, 2003, 11:23 PM

I quit using quotes here at TIMO a long time ago for most HTML work. I just wanted to post something outside the community for a change.

Gait_Keeper · December 24th, 2003, 03:07 AM

Hmm........I still don't kow what Vass meant, but the redirect is good

HeddaLora · December 30th, 2003, 11:34 PM

You should set the # of seconds to 10 or more, to avoid being banned by major search engines.

Best alternative: If your site supports .asp, then use a server-side redirect instead of an HTTP redirect. The search engine spiders will never see the redirect.

--Hedda Lora