Decoupling
The Independent’s website has had a makeover. It’s all right, nowt flash, and certainly better than the previous monstrosity. And let’s hope it’s a bit more robust than the last one which was up and down like a bride’s nightie. (Yes, I know I’m one to talk but then I’m not a multi-million pound media outfit).
There’s just one thing. The Indy’s web designers, in their wisdom, have changed the structure of the site’s permalinks again (they did the same with the last revamp as well). This means that any previous deep-linking from blogs or other sites to articles on the Independent’s website no longer work. Idiots.
Posted on January 23rd, 2008 at 3:56 am
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What annoys me is that they’ve not even bothered to implement a redirect script. Surely they can find some algorithm to convert one link format to another and simply script that into a custom 404 page. Silly buggers.
Oh, and in case you’re unaware, the Independent’s “make-over” consists essentially of pouring the site content into the template of their sister paper, The Irish Independent (pretty good content on Irish politics if you ever need it, terrible terrible columnists) which has been using that design for quite a while now.