Current content is the hallmark of a useful web site. To keep MSU web sites up-to-date, please follow the guidelines below.
If the changes to your site permit, please use the same directory structure and page names. When you do this, users who have bookmarks leading to those pages will always be rewarded. In addition, search engines that have lag time of several weeks between their indexing crawls of your site will always show the correct page.
From time to time websites require significant changes in location or organization. In that case, please be aware of the reality of broken links from user bookmarks and search engine indexes. To eliminate broken links to valuable content, visitors should be redirected to the new URL.
The best way to redirect visitors to the new URL is to use server redirection functionality. This usually has to be done by your server administrator. Please contact the MSU Web Team for more information, or to request a redirect.
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript1.1">
<!--
location.replace("your new url");
//-->
</script>
<noscript>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=your new url">
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
</noscript>
</head>
<body>
This page has moved to a <a href="your new url">new location</a>.
</body>
</html>
If your page uses a .htaccess file there are some other ways to redirect your pages. Go to the .htaccess for redirects page for instructions.
<img alt> tags? If not, review the graphic guidelines and insert the appropriate code.<H2> and <H3> tags? If you're using purely visual styles to make your headlines larger, you're losing some benefits of search engine indexing that rates headline-tagged
text higher than other text.