SITE CONVERSION THIS WEEKEND!!! - Page 4

HoneyBadger · #1 August 14th, 2008, 08:04 PM

It's too bad he can't work part of his time at home, Mindi. That's why I'm able to spend as much time on the boards as I do-I'm chained to a desk for 10 hours a day, but I can do what I like on the internet, since I'm at home. In 10 years time, 20 at the most, I think we'll be seeing a shift to atleast 80% of desk jobs being worked at home, if only for the savings on gas. Every time gas goes up in price, I effectively get a raise

Mindi · #2 August 14th, 2008, 08:28 PM

He works from home on occasion but as a manager of people, he is the one who A. has to set the example and expectations for his team and B. he has to make sure his team is getting things done. Normally he works from home if he's been up half the night on an SRT (Service Restoration Team---as management when there's a bad outage he has to coordinate the restoration effort to get service restored) or he's just exhausted and wants to get stuff done for work without so many people coming to him and bugging him while he's at work. Plus, I doubt anytime soon his company is going to let folks with any kind of regularity work from home...big time corporate America is pretty behind the times in that regard because they want to guarantee they are getting their money's worth out of you.

And yes 2 tanks of gas a week at 60 bucks a pop adds up.

Gandalf Parker · #3 August 18th, 2008, 02:31 PM

That will help.

Im always thrown off by the title in the URLs and bookmarks for here also. Intel Forums. I know that its a war-game theme and meant to refer to gathering intelligence, but my old computer background still sees it as the chip maker. Having the Shrapnel logo on each one will help.

Fyron · #4 August 19th, 2008, 01:43 AM

Isn't that just inviting spam registrars? There are all sorts of broken links to the domain, and some spider is going to snatch it up...

Richard · #5 August 19th, 2008, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Fyron

Isn't that just inviting spam registrars? There are all sorts of broken links to the domain, and some spider is going to snatch it up...

We'll have it for some time but the plan is to fix the broken links with 301's so the search engine's over the next few months resolve to the new url.

shrapnelcommunity.com was never meant to be a long term solution anyway, it was just a short term solution to a problem with the way our sites were layed out.

Azselendor · #6 August 25th, 2008, 09:11 PM

Don't let go of shrapnelcommunity.com, in fact hang on it it as it had what, PR 5 with google. That's very hard to come by and makes the domain itself very valuable. Using a 301 redirect will transfer all that page rank to you over the span of 3-12 months (it was a very large forum).

I don't know how you're redirecting it right now (hopefully 301 with it in a different folder). Don't point it directly here yet. Infact, you might want to throw up a mass-302 redirect (moved temporarily) so google doesn't strip you of page rank for broken links and just update it with 301 redirects as you go.

By the way, if you want to have clean URL's (which search engines goes nuts for) all you need to do is add this to your .htaccess file. (oh, hypes act as joiners to the search engine allowing stuff like "our games" to be treated as a signal phrase and not two words). By implmenting this, you won't be able to browse your site offline and you'll need to tweak image paths but it's worth it.

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^Our-Games$ /Our_Games/Our_Games.html

You might want to also add.

rewritecond %{http_host} ^shrapnelgames.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.shrapnelgames.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

as the major search engines treat www.domain.com seperate from domain.com