Need help regarding redesigning website

[Ganesh J. Acharya]

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.

[David Stone]

In article
<6b************ *************** *******@n33g200 0pri.googlegrou ps.com>,
"Ganesh J. Acharya" <ga************ @gmail.comwrote :

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.

One thing comes to mind - if you want people's opinions of your
current web site, you should provide a url for them to have a look!

[Blinky the Shark]

David Stone wrote:

In article
<6b************ *************** *******@n33g200 0pri.googlegrou ps.com>,
"Ganesh J. Acharya" <ga************ @gmail.comwrote :

>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.

One thing comes to mind - if you want people's opinions of your current
web site, you should provide a url for them to have a look!

You'll have to write more slowly; that's a Google Groper you're answering.

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[David E. Ross]

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.h tmland
<http://www.rossde.com/viewing_site.ht ml>.

The most important thing will be testing your pages. You should test
the HTML (or XHTML) at <http://validator.w3.or g/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.

--

David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>.

Q: What's a President Bush cocktail?
A: Business on the rocks.

[Rick Merrill]

Blinky the Shark wrote:

David Stone wrote:

>In article
<6b*********** *************** ********@n33g20 00pri.googlegro ups.com>,
"Ganesh J. Acharya" <ga************ @gmail.comwrote :

>>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.

One thing comes to mind - if you want people's opinions of your current
web site, you should provide a url for them to have a look!

You'll have to write more slowly; that's a Google Groper you're answering.

google groper? vas is das? - someone just trying to get indexed?

[Blinky the Shark]

Rick Merrill wrote:

Blinky the Shark wrote:

>David Stone wrote:

>>In article
<6b********** *************** *********@n33g2 000pri.googlegr oups.com>,
"Ganesh J. Acharya" <ga************ @gmail.comwrote :

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.
One thing comes to mind - if you want people's opinions of your current
web site, you should provide a url for them to have a look!

You'll have to write more slowly; that's a Google Groper you're
answering.

google groper? vas is das? - someone just trying to get indexed?

A Google Groups poster and some common wordplay.
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[Erwin Moller]

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.h tmland
<http://www.rossde.com/viewing_site.ht ml>.

The most important thing will be testing your pages. You should test
the HTML (or XHTML) at <http://validator.w3.or g/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:

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.

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 scriptinglangua ges, 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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[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "David E. Ross" <no****@nowhere .not>
writing in news:qc******** *************** *******@softcom .net:

While an
automatic spell-checker is convenient, remember that no spell checker
can tell that you meant "not" when you wrote "now".

I have found the best way to deal with this is to listen to the page being
read to me by my browser. I use Opera speech. The human brain, given
enough letters, can read a misspelled word, and might miss it. A computer
will stumble on it, and thereby, it is easily caught. Of course, listening
you would absolutely pick up "Not is the time for all good men..." vs "Now
is the time...".

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[Bergamot]

Erwin Moller wrote:

David E. Ross schreef:

>Image Maps, Java, Frames, Cookies, Plug-Ins, Flash: I do not use them.

JavaScript
for example can make a site a lot more usable

Hmmm... my experience has been more the opposite, especially where it
comes to things like DHTML menus, but that's beside the point.

and pleasing.

"Pleasing" is very subjective. Care to point to an example site?

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.

Depends on what the site is about and who the target audience is. It
isn't as simple as "they're always bad", though there are few valid uses
of image maps and frames, and Flash is abused more often than not.

At any rate, avoiding their use has nothing to do with a "1995 look and
feel". A site can look very stylish without using any embellishments
other than some well thought out graphics and CSS.

--
Berg

[Steve Swift]

Bergamot wrote:

>JavaScript for example can make a site a lot more usable

Hmmm... my experience has been more the opposite

>and pleasing.

"Pleasing" is very subjective. Care to point to an example site?

I'll answer both with one example from Nationwide (www.nationwide.co.uk)

Their online banking requires my user number and a "password" (and a few
other things). It has a checkbox to remember the user number.

It would be nice it if put the cursor in the User number field, which
requires a tiny amount of Javascript.
It would be *really* nice if it were clever enough to recognise that I'd
saved my user number, so it should put the cursor in the "password"
field instead. This requires a tiny bit more Javascript. I've written to
them about this, but my suggestion fells on deaf ears. (If you need an
idea suppressing, then ask me to suggest it. The take-up rate is around
0.1%)

It is little flourishes such as these that make life pleasant, as when
someone holds a door open for you.

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