The update to The Closet Online has been started. At this point I have probably broken more than I have fixed!!  I am simplifying the css for the site as part of the update. I deleted some rules and may have been a bit premature in doing so.

The new home page is up along with a new look. Neither is set in stone at this time, but you have to start somewhere. I think that it looks a bit more inviting now but it deserves to be really special.

This will be a multi-phase project. First I will get most of the things I broke into some semblance of order. A very high priority is to flush the banner farm look in the departments. Then the content that I do have will need to be updated to add more value to the site. Then the department pages can be updated and things polished up so that visitors won’t hit the back button in a panic.

This site now gets a few visitors a week. Some of them may still have bookmarks from before I owned the site and some of them may be looking for a site that is actually in a .net domain. When I get things polished up I will need to promote the site a bit. I think that the site has potential, or I would not be putting in all this work.

I have spent the last couple of hours collecting some banners with which to decorate the Closet. ‘The Closet Online‘ was a domain name that was too good to pass up. It was even better than I thought as it is a pre-owned name that gets some direct bookmark traffic. I am afraid that  the returning traffic has been somewhere between disappointed and frightened. They may still be disappointed, but at least there is something other than green skulls to view. At the present time there is a laundry list of banners on the site. I hope to enlist the help of my daughter in adding some useful content to the site.

Along the line of additions to sites, some more advertisers approved the Shopping for Electronics and their banners are duly installed there. I will be adding comments about the various stores advertised on this site.