RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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Our web design company/moron designed us a new website which essentially hasn't been working; we got 404 messages on all of the pages navigated to via the home page, unless you followed the drop down tree - it appears to be fixed now but this was her excuse:
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Web Designer
The website was using friendly website addresses (different from when it was launched?) – e.g. but these are no longer working
So I’ve set the links up to be non-friendly ones which are working – e.g.
I know this is the wrong section but just wanted to know if this sounded legitimate 
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
Location: Im the real one!
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Let alone the geek shit, that makes fuck all sense anyway.
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
Location: Im the real one!
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nearly forgot - e.g.
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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sorry, it was just the web addresses, she has effectively changed the paths from xxx.co.uk/xxx/yyy/zzz to xxx.co.uk/xxx_yyy_zzz
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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now it appears the contact us page isn't working correctly - there is a contact form, fill in your details and we contact you back - but these messages don't come through to us; where are they likely to go? To the web developer
[Edited on 10-11-2010 by LiVe LeE]
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
Location: West Yorkshire
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Link to said site?
He sounds a bit useless tbh
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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U2U sent
oh and its a She not a He!!!
[Edited on 10-11-2010 by LiVe LeE]
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Kurt
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Registered: 23rd Oct 05
Location: Hi
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Link?
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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The whole thing is up the swanny, the way the page navigation works is a complete arse
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AndyKent
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Registered: 3rd Sep 05
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Sounds like something you might do - called a server redirect - its supposed to be used to grab friendly addresses (ie. simple to type) and turn them into something the server can understand.
Having 404 errors all over the place clearly means they've fucked it up 
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
Location: West Yorkshire
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No 404s now.
But the page nav is pretty basic.
It just directly links to each page eg. abc.com/contact.php rather than just calling the content.
Bit oldskool and simple but does the job and i got no 404s.
Contact page looks ok but cant access the .php it calls when you hit submit so cant see whats wrong there
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Jamie Walby
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Registered: 15th Nov 04
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quote:
Originally posted by LiVe LeE
oh and its a She not a He!!!
Nuff said. Man would never make such fundamental mistakes.
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ENB
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Registered: 24th Apr 06
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I love these web designers that just re-skin wordpress to sell to people...
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
Location: West Yorkshire
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quote:
Originally posted by ENB
I love these web designers that just re-skin wordpress to sell to people...
If people are willing to pay them then its their fault. Not the 'designer'
If someone asked for a site with a content manager i wouldnt try build one from scratch i'd use Joomla etc same with Ecommerce. Why build from scratch when theres Zen etc about
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