Using Forwarding Pages

Often it is useful to be able to move users on from one page to another. This is most often used when a site has moved - users accessing the old url can be told that the site has moved, and then be forwarded on automatically.

To do this you need to insert a line in the header part of the html document

<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="1 ; URL=http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/services/courses/iscontacts.html">

The number after CONTENT= is the number of seconds that the browser will wait at the old url.
The url after URL= is the location of the new page.

A common way of creating forwarding pages is to put some text on the page:

1. Telling people that the page has moved
2. Giving a hyperlink of the new location
3. Making the CONTENT= number long enough for them to see the text (about 5 seconds)