Move of the INDOLOGY website
Arlo Griffiths
arlo.griffiths at LET.LEIDENUNIV.NL
Mon Dec 5 14:05:41 UTC 2005
Dear Dominik,
Could you, or could Richard Mahoney, please inform me of the most
closely allied Buddhological lists that you are aware of? I will soon
need to post a job advertisement in this field...
Best wishes,
Arlo
On Dec 2, 2005, at 10:00 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
> :: The INDOLOGY website is changing
>
> The INDOLOGY website will shortly be moving from one internet host
> to another. There will also be a major upgrade of the interface.
> These changes are made possible by a grant from the British
> Academy's Society for South Asian Studies, and the expertise of
> Richard Mahoney in both indology and web programming. I am most
> grateful to the SSAS and to Richard for their support in making
> these upgrades possible.
>
>
>
> :: What these changes will mean for you?
>
> The INDOLOGY website is officially at the address
>
> http://www.indology.info
>
> This web address will remain the same. But there may be some
> hiccups in the service over the next week or so, while we move this
> address from one service provider to another. This change takes
> place behind the scenes, and the address http://www.indology.info
> itself doesn't change. I think that the shorter address http://
> indology.info will also work, but I won't be certain until the
> change is complete.
>
> As I write this (Friday evening, 2 December), the longer address
> may take you to a new dummy page, and the shorter one (without
> "www") still takes you to the old indology pages. These
> transitional disturbances will settle down soon.
>
>
>
> :: What about the old UCL address?
>
> For many years the INDOLOGY website has run out of my personal
> account at UCL, namely
>
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/indology.html
>
> In fact, until now, the www.indology.info address was nothing more
> than a redirection to my UCL account.
>
> My UCL address will continue to take you to the old INDOLOGY
> website for a little while. It's use is deprecated. I would ask
> you please not to use it in your own websites or bookmarks. Soon,
> I'll change it so that it automatically forwards your browser to
> the new INDOLOGY website at www.indology.info . But in the long
> run it will die out as a reference to the INDOLOGY website.
>
>
>
> :: Now and the future
>
> Changing the INDOLOGY website interface has been fun. But it also
> long overdue. Richard and I have discussed it and checked the new
> site, although Richard deserves all the credit for its highly
> professional styling and rigorous formal correctness. The actual
> content is broadly the same as the former website, although we have
> done some work on dead links. A future phase of the project will
> -- subject to funding -- restructure and develop the content
> substantially.
>
>
> Happy Christmas,
>
> Dominik
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