I already have a home page somewhere else that Id rather send my reading public to. Whats the best way to deal with that?
Because the index of home pages is generated automatically and frequently, there is no good way to get your entry to point to your other home page. A simple solution that some people use is to create a home page with little content other than a link to their “real” home page, but some find that that solution lacks elegance. Don’t despair, however; redirect comes to the rescue! A redirect is a feature of the HTTP protocol that the web is built upon. It’s a way of saying to the web browser, “you asked for this, but you really want that.” There are a couple of ways to do this: • You can add a “meta” tag to the
of your HTML file. That has the advantage that you may specify a delay before the new page loads, which allows you to display a page with an informative message so that people are aware that the redirect is taking place. The downside is that it doesn’t work with older browsers. Really old browsers. • You can add a directive to your .htaccess file that performs the redirect.