Thoughts on Rebuilding/upgrading Sites
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009I have embarked on a journey. The trip is to rebuild my business website, AudioArt Sound. It is too soon to check the progress at this point, but I will post an announcement when the journey ends. Right now the new pages only reside on my computer, but you can look at the AudioArt Blog to see the new site design.
This was one of my original sites. At first it resided on my free ISP web space. I was not very knowledgeable when I first built the site and did most things wrong. I gained some knowledge and rebuilt the site one time and moved it to the paid hosting space. I have progressed some in my capabilities, and so I will soon unveil AudioArt Sound 3.0.
In many ways it is more work to rebuild/upgrade one of the old sites than it is to slam up a new site. With a new site I make the pages to my current standards and skill level. When I redo one of the old sites I have all the old mistakes to correct and I must maintain the linking framework through the transition. With a new site there is a straight forward process. I do this and then I do that, and soon the site is live. With a rebuild I have to think of how I can make things better. This site and the personal website, Wink Longnecker.com, are the only two sites that do not use my basic wire-frame layout. This makes this rebuild even more interesting. I will also want to improve some functions as I make these changes. All of this takes a bit of head scratching. I will get the task finished at some point, but it will have to be a spare time project, so it may take a while.