TV Live

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rob Founding member 3 June 2008 8:46am

www.tv-live.org.uk

TV Live has a new website address... although the site is currently offline for maintenance, so don't click it yet. Maintenance should be completed in the next few hours.

If you have content you want to submit to TV Live, our new e-mail address is contact@tv-live.org.uk

Updates will return tomorrow with some new additions to the site.

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rob Founding member 4 June 2008 7:56am

The site is now back online with our new address.

Newsround has been added to the site today.

Please update your bookmarks to our new address - www.tv-live.org.uk

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paul_hadley 4 June 2008 12:16pm

I think you should still keep the old address as a redirect like it is now to the new one and not delete it altogether at the end of this month.

All those links on Google, etc that you've built up will be dead.

All that hard work you've put into building the site's public profile will be undone when the uni.cc address deactivates and people are greeted with a 404 error not knowing where to go.

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Jonny 4 June 2008 12:39pm

Actually uni.cc addresses do not show up on Google searches and the pages are not hosted by uni.cc anyway. They are and will continue to be hosted on byethost and remain at the same URL (http://rfrancis51284.byethost13.com/).

I agree though that the tv-live.uni.cc domain should be kept as a simple redirect page.

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rob Founding member 4 June 2008 1:44pm

lateshowuk posted:

I think you should still keep the old address as a redirect like it is now to the new one and not delete it altogether at the end of this month.

All those links on Google, etc that you've built up will be dead.

All that hard work you've put into building the site's public profile will be undone when the uni.cc address deactivates and people are greeted with a 404 error not knowing where to go.

That seems like a better option IMO. Thanks for your suggestion.

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paul_hadley 4 June 2008 3:03pm

You're welcome.

JR

jrothwell97 4 June 2008 7:44pm

I'd go further than keeping it as a redirect for a month or so.

I'd suggest making it a 'soft redirect' (it doesn't redirect automatically, but adivses users that the address has changed and would they please update their bookmarks) for around three months, and then putting an automatic redirect in for around nine months. The absolute earliest I would delete the old address would be in one year... but it's your call.

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rob Founding member 5 June 2008 7:21am

jrothwell97 posted:

I'd suggest making it a 'soft redirect' (it doesn't redirect automatically, but adivses users that the address has changed and would they please update their bookmarks) for around three months, and then putting an automatic redirect in for around nine months. The absolute earliest I would delete the old address would be in one year... but it's your call.

Great idea.

Site updates today include More 4 News, CBBC and Virgin 1

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rob Founding member 10 June 2008 2:28pm

The Thames Television section has been refreshed with new images. Updates to other ITV regions will take place later this week.

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rob Founding member 11 June 2008 8:44am

The updates are continuing with Central, LWT and TSW pages getting major refreshes.

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rob Founding member 12 June 2008 7:35am

More updates today.

Tyne Tees, Channel 4 in the Past, Carlton, Granada, TVS, Yorkshire and HTV sections have all been updated with new images and content.

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paul_hadley 12 June 2008 9:29am

Good job Rob.

Your site is really going from strength to strength. Congrats.

(July 2007)