Part of the overhaul of websites here at work is a huge link hunt. There’s actually a sub-contractor to a helper to an assistant to an administrator somewhere whose job is to go through the sites and find broken links and things that haven’t been updated for ages. This information gets bounced around until it’s reported to a committee, which either shrugs and says the corporate equivalent of “Oopsie!” or sends a memo off to whoever is supposed to be maintaining the site.
So today we got a bit of a surprise. One of the older sites that we worked on is still up and running, and it links to a REALLY old version of our own work website. As in “Last updated on July 7, 1999” old. It’s kind of silly. We’ve been working on other people’s websites so much that we hardly get a chance to do anything to our own…
I had to do a bit of phoning around to have my old password reset, but it got done and the old site has been mothballed. I backed everything up, just in case we need it, and there’s a redirect in place which pops people over to the new server.
The new site will get more pages over the next few weeks as I sort through the old stuff and figure out what’s worth recycling and what just needs to get tossed. It’s a lot like the sort of that I’m going to be doing with some of the stuff in my garage before Saturday, except that I probably won’t be using a sledgehammer to break the website down into tiny bits.