Website bug reports

[AVA]

I didn't see an official thread for this, so I started one (sorry if I missed the official channel somewhere!). I found a couple of issues that should probably fixed on the main site, especially now that we're picking up more advertising/cross con traffic:

- From the Registration page, the "Home" link points to a page called "default.htm," which doesn't exist.
- Also from the Registration page, the "Forums" link points to a local file, not the actual forum URL.

[ACMike]

Ah ha thank you.... no matter how long we look for these things they always seem to crop up! Thanks and I'll forward to info to the webdesigner!

[apathetic3cstasy]

Currently all your links to the forum are -dead-...
at least the ones I found in the Community and the front page.

[ACMike]

Hmmm, I see what you mean..... I'll let Scott know next chance I get and we'll look into. Its seems as we fix one thing another issue crops up.

[apathetic3cstasy]

Thats the joy of websites.... specially when hosted on a Windows Machine. <.<...

[apathetic3cstasy]

Forewarning, the Forums link on the main page is broken, but on the community page it's working.

[ACMike]

ill pass it on...

[AVA]

I see that this was mentioned above, but the Forums link from the index page is still broken...

[leighkimmel]

I didn't see an official thread for this, so I started one (sorry if I missed the official channel somewhere!). I found a couple of issues that should probably fixed on the main site, especially now that we're picking up more advertising/cross con traffic:

- From the Registration page, the "Home" link points to a page called "default.htm," which doesn't exist.
- Also from the Registration page, the "Forums" link points to a local file, not the actual forum URL.

Depending on your webhosting software, you may be able to set up either a default page or a customized 404 error page which will make sure that people who come in on incorrect links will get something that will still give them the necessary information to get to working pages, instead of just a generic say-nothing 404 error page.

I know it's possible on Apache servers running on Linux, since Hostgator (the hosting service I use for my websites) offers this service (I need to implement it on all my sites, especially my business ones -- it's somewhere on my to-do list), but not all hosting companies necessarily enable it. I don't know enough about other kinds of servers to say definitely about them, and even my understanding of Apache on Linux is mostly from trial-and-error, monkey-see-monkey-do experience building my own websites.

[ACMike]

Hey guys just to let you know I've not been ignoring the issues, we just arranged this last weekend to have a friend of our step up and help out with the websites. Most of the dead links should be going away in the near future.

Mike