[Nfb-web] Affiliate Web Sites and broken links

Wed Aug 9 02:10:40 CDT 2006

I have at the present given up on trying to use Contribute with JAWS. I like
to hand code my pages.

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Aloha:
Milton M. Ota
1318 Kanewai Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96816-1718
E-mail: mota at hawaii.rr.com
Website: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/mota
Phone: (808) 734-0612 / Cell: (808) 295-2528
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-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Donahue
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:16 PM
To: NFB Webmaster's List
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Affiliate Web Sites and broken links

Hello Milton and listers,

    Glad you discovered the problems on your affiliate Web Site and like me
are fixing things so all works right again. Lord only knows how many of us
will be Picking up the pieces before it's all over. Here's hoping that the
next time out there can be more coordination between NFB Webmasters and the
national office to prevent such calamities in the future. Which versions of
JAWS have you tried Dream Weaver and Contribute with?

Peter Donahue
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mota at hawaii.rr.com>
To: <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>; <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] Affiliate Web Sites and broken links

Thank you Peter for your post--I discovered the need to update the links on
my affiliate site over and I think I have corrected all the links.

Have a great day!

Original Message:
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From: Peter Donahue pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:46:12 -0500
To: nfb-web at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfb-web] Affiliate Web Sites and broken links

Good afternoon everyone,

I want to suggest that all NFB Web Masters check all links on your affiliate
or division Web Sites to ensure they're all working. The recent upgrade of
our national Web site has reeked unforseen havoc on many local and state
affiliate, and division Web sites which access content straight from our
national Web Site. While we applaud the efforts of our national office to
give us a new and improved Web Site what I believe was over-looked was the
fact that many of us link directly to specific content on the national site
not realizing that changes in this content and its where-abouts on the NFB
server can cause such links to be broken should alterations in the location
of content on the remote host be changed. When our new national site went
on-line on the first of this month direct links to content on the old Web
site were unintentionally broken making particular text, audio, and video
content inaccessible to site visitors.

    I'm beginning to, "Repair" the unintentioned damage to the NFB of
Tennessee Web Site by redirecting the URLS of the broken links to their
location on the new and much improved national NFB Web Site. Content not
likely to be changed very often will be localized to the same server as the
affiliate/division site to prevent such breakage in the future. Guess I can
now say that we've all had a harsh lesson that linking to content on a
remote Web site is not always a good idea.

    Sorry if this sounds like I'm complaining, but rather I want to urge you
all to check your sites for which you're responsible and to make the
necessary redirects so the information accessed directly from our national
Web Site will once again be available to your affiliate or division's site
visitors. The upside to this calamity is that now that I've upgraded to JAWS
7.0 I'm able to make better use of Macromedia's Contribute and Dream Weaver.
There's still a few focus issues with Code View in Dream Weaver, and in the
file editor in Contribute, but over-all they can be accessed far better than
they could with our previous version of JAWS. If I'm getting this kind of
results with JAWS 7.0 I can't wait to see the new version of Dream Weaver
under JAWS 7.0, and 7.1.

    Again my intention is not to whine and complain about the situation, but
to encourage y'all to check your Web Sites for bad links and to redirect
them to the new content on our national site so they work properly once
more. The NFBTN Site took somewhat of a beating in this respect, but since
much of the content was taken from the national site and placed directly on
the NFB Net server the carnage isn't as bad as it could have been had I
simply accessed all content directly from our national Web Site.

    I'd be curious to know if anyone knows how soon the audio and video
content from the old web site will be working again so I can moddify the
links from the NFBTN Site so they work once more? Since I have just about
all of that content on my hard drive if this is going to be a prolonged
outage I'll need to come up with another work-around to get them working
again although I know I can restore some of it without too much trouble.

    Let me wind it up by saying that since the new national site came
on-lineI've noticed that it loads faster and has much improved
responsiveness over the old Web Site. Am I the only one whose checked it
out? I was waiting to hear feedback from others on the new NFB Web Site. I
would also suggest that should future major upgrades of our national site
occur that the site be made available to NFB Webmasters for a period of time
prior to the launch for the general public to allow us to moddify links to
content being accessed directly from this site to permit a smoother
transition. Take care and have a great day.

Peter Donahue

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