Re: Need help regarding redesigning website


David E. Ross schreef:
On 7/30/2008 1:46 AM, Ganesh J. Acharya wrote:
Hi there,

I want to redesign my website and make that look professional.

I made this about 6 years ago with very little knowledge of internet.
Today I am getting about 4000 visitors a day for the same.

What are the things I need to keep in my mind when doing this process.

If you are actually redesigning and not merely improving the HTML, I
suggest you might want to look at my
<http://www.rossde.com/internet/web_design.html>. Note the links to
other Web sites that also discuss Web design, especially the link to
"Viewable with Any Browser Campaign".

You might also be interested in my
<http://www.rossde.com/internet/Webdevelopers.html> and
<http://www.rossde.com/viewing_site.html>.

The most important thing will be testing your pages. You should test
the HTML (or XHTML) at <http://validator.w3.org/> and the CSS at
<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/>. After you remove all errors, you
should then view your pages with both Internet Explorer (preferably
version 7) and a Gecko-based browser (Firefox or SeaMonkey) to ensure
they display appropriately. (No, they will likely NOT display
identically.) And you should proof-read all content; research indicates
the best proof-reading is done from printed hardcopy. While an
automatic spell-checker is convenient, remember that no spell checker
can tell that you meant "not" when you wrote "now".

Are you really getting 4,000 visits per day? Or are those 4,000 hits
per day? I'm getting about 1,100 visits per day, but those involve a
total of 8,200 hits. In my case, a single "visit" is counted when
someone accesses one of my pages and then uses a link on that page to
access another of my pages, and so on.


Hi David Ross,

I am not sure the following advise pleases most modern webvisitors:

[quote]
Image Maps, Java, Frames, Cookies, Plug-Ins, Flash: I do not use them. On a few pages, I experimented with JavaScript; but I found it was far more bother than it was worth. I am gradually eliminating that usage. In the meantime, if you disable JavaScript, there will be no adverse impact in viewing my pages.
[/quote]

While it is of course perfectly fine to avoid all the above mentioned technics, it also keeps your page in the last millenium: very static.
I agree that avoiding all these techniques gives you maximum compatibility, but you all miss out on a LOT of good fun.

Of course I don't know what the OP's original pages are, by JavaScript for example can make a site a lot more usable and pleasing. And I wouldn't know how to store userpreferences without cookies.
And when you are into scriptinglanguages, like PHP, cookies are really a relatively safe way of keeping/starting a session (at least a lot better than writing the PHPSESSID in the URL).
etc. etc.etc.

I think you are on the VERY safe side avoiding all those techniques, but that also makes boring pages with a 1995 look and feel.

just my 2 cent.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

PS: You also wrote a lot of useful things on that side!


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