A Page Structure Pattern from
Patterns for Personal Web Sites
Pages age; their contents go out of date. Sometimes pages are wrong; even the best proofreaders make mistakes. How can you ensure your pages are accurate?
The answer to is to put your visitors to use. They will find errors you don't, as well as out-of-date material. However, if you don't provide an easy way for them to notify you of problems, they won't.
Therefore, on every page, provides a link to the page's maintainer.
This link can take a variety of forms: a mailto:
link, a link to a page with an email form, or a link to a page with the maintainer's contact information.
Following Consistent Format, this link should be put in a standard place on all pages. It's an excellent candidate for a page's Standard Header and Footer.
Last updated 17 June 2002
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