Aug. 7th, 2008
That Web Things
Aug. 7th, 2008 03:23 pmI had a plan to redo my webpages that link to useful/references sites to make them more useful. I know there are a number of dead link on these pages, so I thought I'd run them through a link checker first.
The one I decided to use checks the whole site rather than individual pages (yah), including internal links (yah, I think) and gives the bad links as a list that doesn't say what page they are on (uhoh) but that shouldn't be a problem as most of the dead links are on a handful of pages.
The external links, anyway.
What I didn't take into account is I've never ran a link checker over the whole site (usually I just do a page at a time) and I've had a decade and some of moving pages, renaming pages and uploading over existing pages and... other stuff. It could have been worse. I generally keep the same file names and don't generally link to different subfolders, except at the top level. Still, it took a couple of hours to fix things and, in the process, I obviously broke others.
And I didn't get to checking the pages of links. I just took them down (and then had to fix all references to them). I don't think anyone than me actually uses them, but if you do, sorry, they'll be back soon.
The one I decided to use checks the whole site rather than individual pages (yah), including internal links (yah, I think) and gives the bad links as a list that doesn't say what page they are on (uhoh) but that shouldn't be a problem as most of the dead links are on a handful of pages.
The external links, anyway.
What I didn't take into account is I've never ran a link checker over the whole site (usually I just do a page at a time) and I've had a decade and some of moving pages, renaming pages and uploading over existing pages and... other stuff. It could have been worse. I generally keep the same file names and don't generally link to different subfolders, except at the top level. Still, it took a couple of hours to fix things and, in the process, I obviously broke others.
And I didn't get to checking the pages of links. I just took them down (and then had to fix all references to them). I don't think anyone than me actually uses them, but if you do, sorry, they'll be back soon.