RE: Good practice to place web URLs in your documentation?

["Carly Martin" <carly1957_lists -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

I generally put the company home page URL and then vague directions, such as
"...from the Downloads, Drivers page at www.adobe.com." Unless it is
something that hasn't moved in a long time, like the Acrobat Reader link.

On web pages, I'll put the exact link because I've had access to great
corporate (read $$) tools that can quickly verify the links on the whole web
site on a periodic basis.

Carly

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Subject: Good practice to place web URLs in your documentation?



The software application I work on can require the user to get drivers and
utilities from their database or application server vendor.

I hesitate to place the exact URL for these downloads in our documentation
(delivered on CD in PDF form) because the URL could easily change.

What do you think? Worth the risk?

Tony




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