I link (on cresby.com) to a lot of websites (because I care) and to cut the clutter I usually link to internal pages so that the link is relevant to what I describe &/or the page I put it on.

I find regularly that links change, and mostly to another filename on the same website.

It seems amazing when having nurtured an audience that webmasters can't see that any change risks loosing a chunk of that audience who have put it on their "favourites" and it no longer works. If the surfer has to go looking again they may find an alternative.

The JavaScript to redirect a page to a new page is about 3 lines including the JavaScript TAG /TAG.

in my case I have just changed the dance events page and it took several weeks (as a tinkerer) to devize JavaScript that would make the page look the same to another collector of information (Webfeet) but still re-direct the surfer AND the those that arrive at my site via Webfeet using the specific links which include anchors (subsections inside pages) that Webfeet use. The old page (new name) is still there just in case people prefer it.

I do tell some webmeisters who thank me but a lot just think I know precious little about these things - which is not far from the truth but how much do they know?