Joshua Curtiss

I just transitioned my blog in two huge ways: (a) I reassigned it to a different domain name, and (b) I changed the blogging engine I was using, which incidentally used a file organization structure that's incompatible with my new engine. Furthermore, I decided to import all of my old posts into my new blog rather than leave the old and start anew. I don't regret any of the changes I've made, because I've laid groundwork that I'll be much happier with in the future. But these changes can wreak havoc on my site's perceived status, since any links to my pages and any stale search engine referrals will now result in ugly 404 errors. Sure, we could set up a friendly 404 page that notifies the user of what's happened. However, why don't we eliminate the embarrassment of noti... (more)