Cruise Bruise Blog
April 2, 2009
April 2, 2009
Victim's Attorney Gets Information For Witness Who Contacted Cruise Bruise

As reported on March 20th, a Cruise Bruise visitor made contact with us to say he had information about the alleged assailant, Jorge Manuel Texeira in the case of the Coral Princess cruise ship passenger who says Texeira sexually assaulted her.

Posting a worldwide e-call on the case page for her representative to contact us so we could pass along that information brought results today. Charles R. Lipcon of the Miami, Florida law firm Lipcon, Margulies & Alsina PA has contacted Cruise Bruise today to say the firm represents the Jane Doe in this case.

I am pleased that Cruise Bruise has been able to assist a partner in this case. Once again, the worldwide reach of Cruise Bruise has brought together witnesses in a case and alleged victims, geographically thousands of miles apart,  in the quest for justice.

April 2, 2009
Cruise Ship Web Cam Page Has Been Updated

This site is so massive, it is difficult to get around to as many pages I would like to update. Daily, I have to prioritize the work for the day. Yesterday, I really had to move the page with the links to the cruise ship web cams to the front of the list.

Many of the web cam links were dead. I would like to explain why. One of the biggest mistakes a business can make on the web, is to change the url of pages on the site. For everytime a visitor gets an error page or even worst, a search engine note that the url is bad, with no error page available, traffic is disrupted, more times than not totally lost.

It is web design 101, that pages being moved on the web, should only be moved under a controlled set of circumstances. Generally, if the page needs to be moved, it is moved, but the old page is left in place for a period of time, with all the content removed, and nothing but a link directing to the new page left on the page. When traffic has been reduced to a trickle if at all, then the page can safely be deleted without alienation of the visitors.

Some webmasters may use a redirect script that automatically directs the visitor to the new page, but for reasons beyond the scope of this blog entry, I will not go into lengthy technical explanation of why that is one of the worst solutions.

Yes, I know, when I dislodged all those blog pages some time ago, I broke the rule myself. That comes under the design heading, Knowing The Rules But Breaking Them When It Is In The Best Interest Of The Visitors. My blog shift, was one such case.

The most common reason for disrupting a majority if not all the urls of a web site is a change in hosting/design management. When one design company is not meeting the expectations of the client, or when design maintenance fees become too high, it is common for clients to jump ship to a new firm.

When that happens, the mistake the client makes is not insisting all pages keep their established urls, for the benefit of visitors.  The new design firm, launches a new site, with all new urls, a navigation and traffic nightmare for established and loyal visitors. All bookmarks no longer work and site visitors are sufficiently alienated.

When we link to those pages that have since been moved, the links no longer work. So, we have to check the links from time to time, to ensure we now do not have bad links. Since this is time consuming process, one that takes away from the real work here, you now know why I rarely link to any pages off this site. In order for me to link to a page on another site, the benefit of doing so has to heavily out-weigh the negative effects of ultimately having bad links.

Likely this summer, I too will be moving hundred of pages to make it easier for me to work on them, and easier for visitors to find them. It is a huge process, but I will leave the old pages on the site, with a link to each new page, so you don't get too inconvenienced.

Once it is done, hopefully, it will never have to be done again. When I launched this site, I had no idea at all how vast the problems were in the industry, and how vast this site would become. It is easy to organize 23 pages. Organizing thousands of pages is a complex task on a web site, one that requires alot more vision than 23 pages.

In updating the page of web cam links, I also integrated that page into the Video Category, so it is easy to jump from browsing cruise ship bridge (bow) cams, port-side cams and starboard-side cams to browsing the videos in the Cruise Bruise library.


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