How to Redirect Users From One URL to Another

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to redirect users from one URL to another. Let's go to the computer. As you can see, on my desktop, I have two web pages. My page, and my page two. Let's open up my page with a text editor. I'm just going to say notepad. And you can see here, I have some HTML code. Now within the header of this HTML page, I have a tag that's a metatag, and I've set the http equivalent value of this metatag to be refresh. That's going to cause the page to refresh. Now, next to that, I have a content value that's has a two as the value. That means it's going to refresh after two seconds. Now, I could stop right there, but instead, I have another value called URL equals and I say my page two dot htm. They're separated by semi-colons, as you can see. What this is saying is that when you refresh, instead of coming back to this page, I want you to go instead to my page two dot htm. If I didn't want it to wait any time at all, I'll put a zero here. Let's leave a two, and I have a little message inside the body saying "redirecting you to page two." Let's close that. Now on page two, open that little text editor. All I have is a header that says page two. Let's open up my page, and immediately after it opens, it should wait two seconds, and then send us directly to page two. It's open, one, two, page two. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to redirect users from one URL to another."