Isn't the setting up of customised error pages (possible on all decent web servers), that help to redirect the user to the content they're after, a helpful thing to do (if not a half-way solution) that few sites I've seen do? --- [log in to unmask] Good Technology ltd. http://www.goodtech.co.uk/ On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Brigitte Eaton wrote: > this is actually an issue right now, even without using frames. currently on beyond.com's site we are replacing discontinued items with a "not found" error. > > ideally, both from marketing's pov and a usability standpoint, we would rather replace it with the replacement item (assuming there is one). unfortunately, we don't have the capability to do that right now. > > is anyone handling it differently? > > brig > > At 05:41 AM 2/4/99 , Michael Albers wrote: > >Many on-line stores and other sites create the page dynamically. How will > >this affect the use of bookmarking and what type of usability > >considerations will it bring up in the design? > > > >Assume, for an on-line computer store, you bookmark a CD-ROM. A month > >later, when you can buy it, the store has discontinued that item. What > >should your bookmark lead to? Is it the discontinued item, the replacement > >item, or a 'not found' error. > > > >I see that as dynamic page generation uses more information content that is > >truly dynamic (as opposed to static data sitting in a database), that a > >whole new set of issues for effective design and later!! retrieval will > >become an issue. Is anyone addressing this area now? > > > >Mike Albers > > > > -------------------------- > brigitte eaton > some type of web/ui/architecture/information designer > http://www.eatonweb.com > > "If you were inclined to lose your mind, > you could stay on the Internet all day." > -- New Yorker Editor in Chief David Remnick > >