{"id":6907,"date":"2017-01-31T20:12:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2017-01-31T20:12:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T20:12:29","slug":"redirecting-one-website-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/redirecting-one-website-another.htm","title":{"rendered":"Redirecting from one website to another"},"content":{"rendered":"

After almost 15 years working freelance, my wife is in the process of winding up her business, in preparation to start a new job in a few weeks’ time.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, that means a few IT requests for the (unpaid) IT Manager… one of which is to redirect the former company website to her LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

There are a few ways to redirect websites – an HTML meta tag is often used – but\u00a0with the variety of web browsers out there\u00a0I wasn’t sure how current that technique is. Some would argue it’s better to sort out the re-write server-side but I don’t have that ability on this hosting platform.<\/p>\n

Then I found a really useful thread on Stack Overflow<\/a> – including this code snippet with\u00a0HTML, JavaScript and fallback links:<\/p>\n

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