[Bf-webcontent] Re-activating list

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Luca,

We certainly have to remove or hide the download.b.o documentation,  
that's for Blender 2.3 and totally invalid now. How to make good  
redirects on a server i don't know... can you give me the html code  
for it, or should I ask sysadm Marco?

We also have to attempt to (re)define where www.blender.org stops and  
wiki.blender.org begins. :)
My idea is to keep the www.blender.org site lean and mean:

- Static content that doesn't change (often)
- provide a good and well designed portal to everything that goes on  
other sub-domains.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 16 May, 2011, at 14:28, mindrones wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>> Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>>
>> For blender.org web pages, this ownership should need to be re-
>> established. But from my memory I think it's like this now:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Download
>> - Ton, Nathan Letwory, Thomas Dinges
>
> as explained in [1], I'd love to tackle the documentation part at
> http://download.blender.org/documentation/.
>
> As said there I'd like to set proper *permanent* redirects b.org ->
> wiki on [2] and [3] (and subpages).
>
>
> To explain, I think this will greatly help to increase the ranking of
> wiki pages.
> Let's make an abstract example (d.b.o = download.blender.org,
> w.b.o=wiki.blender.org).
>
> If we search for "blender documentation foo" we will probably find:
>
> d.b.o/documentation/htmlI/Foo
> and
> w.b.o/index.php/Doc:Foo
>
> These two pages are then competing for the best ranking and this is a
> waste, considering that d.b.o/documentation/htmlI/Foo is obsolete.
>
> So I'd place a permanent redirect (301 redirect) like:
>
> d.b.o/documentation/html/Foo  -- (301) -->  w.b.o/index.php/Doc:Foo
>
>
> This will let search engines know that d.b.o/documentation/html/Foo is
> no more and the correspondant page from now on and forever will be
> w.b.o/index.php/Doc:Foo, so that w.b.o/index.php/Doc:Foo would pop up
> in the search results.
>
> This would be crucial for the SEO we're trying to do on the wiki.
>
>
> Regards,
> Luca
>
>
> [1] http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-docboard/2011-May/ 
> 003696.html
> [2] http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/
> [3] http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlII/
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