Tuesday, April 5, 2005

Notes About the Launch

Here are some interesting (?) notes about the launch (with reference to the Launch Procedure)...
  1. There were 1,504 files (28MB) in the /bcim/ directory before the launch (including image files). Most of these are intranet files, but many of them are defunct - I think - and could be deleted.
     
  2. There were 291 files (3MB) in the /bcimnew/ directory before the launch (including image files); these were copied into /bcim/for the launch (after a global find & replace to change every occurrence of "bcimnew" into "bcim").
     
  3. According to my email client I have sent or received a total of 874 messages relating to the BCIM website over the past three months!
     
Here is a screenshot to show what /bcim-with-redirects/ looks like with the colour coding; I've used grey to indicate old files/directories and yellow to indicate redirection pages. The contents of the about.shtml redirection page is shown below as an example; all of the redirection pages are in this form.

<html>
<head>
<title>Redirection Page</title>
  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;
   URL=http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/bcim/about/">
</head>
<body>
<center>
  <p>
  <p>
  <p>
  <p>
  This page will re-direct you after a few seconds to...
  <p>
  <a href="http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/bcim/about/">
  http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/bcim/about/</a>
  <p>
  Please update any hyperlinks to this page.
</center>
</body>
</html>