Importance of Link Viability
​Curating online content for 25 years from a school website to Wikispaces to my own website L. Houle's Ed Tools, as well as my LiveBinders, it's been important that I keep all shared links up-to-date.  There is nothing worse than following a link and finding it no longer viable. Throughout my site I keep my viewers notified when I last updated and/or verified links. With the integration of my website and  LiveBinders, viewers can see dates on list pages as well as in the intro of the binder.. 

Since it's not possible to check links within a binder, other than visiting each tab, my webpage links serve as my means for checking viability.  I use these 2 tools regularly to check for viability. Note when you find a site that still has good content that 'doesn't age" consider saving it to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.  You'll find such items listed throughout my 20th century decades lists and shared in my LiveBinder.  I also have 5 heritage binders that I regularly share archive links to sites with excellent content that have become no longer available.

When a site does not respond, before you delete consider testing the URL using: