From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,96513ac1263dc3e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.204.141.4 with SMTP id k4mr414673bku.6.1339694886108; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Path: e27ni48049bkw.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Clean out those dead links Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:37:05 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <6223f724-366c-496a-a8ae-3954bb788612@t1g2000pbl.googlegroups.com> <87wr3e72zt.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 8GT9OIvzJjB9Y3L+OUPMhA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.00 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-06-11T12:37:05+02:00 List-Id: Le Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:54:14 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen = a =C3=A9crit: > J-P. Rosen wrote: > >> I have a link on my page that says "if you find a broken link, please= >> tell me". I had but a couple of reports in years, from which I assume= d >> that updating my page was not the most urgent thing to do. > > I'm optimistic enough, that I just expect people to write me whenever > they run into a broken link on one of my websites. - But it sounds lik= e > that my be overly optimistic. Make sure your contact informations are visible enough and no one can mi= ss = it. Make it big enough (no small font), and distinct with a dedicated = color or font or with easily recognizable icon, and place it in the left= = margin of each page, not at the bottom pages and not only on the home = page. In short, show contacting you is worth and show you expect it. -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity