Hi all I'm currently working on a new deisgn for my site. current design: http://www.itsall3.com new design: http://www.itsall3.com/test.php Problem is, every page is new, and its a totally new layout new style sheets everything. its going to be a big job. and i need to do it one page at a time. But theres going to be errors all over the place while i do it. for days. I would like to know the best way to do this upgrade. I need time to work on each page, changing it. -- but i also dont want each page to report errors to google that its not avilable or missing while i work on it. I dont want to close the site with a sinlge "back soon" page, as 1. people that find my site might not come back, and 2. google might have some crazy fit and do somthing strange. Any advice on the best way to upgrade a site without problems from search engines would be great. Cheers.
Hi dcristo , I'm redoing the WHOLE design, the layout, and other changes. so every page needs to be changed. I would really like it so that a user comes to it, and everything is changed. But i cannot do that, as i need to change each page, to add the new layout. -- I can only do this one page at a time, and i need to test it as i do it to see if the php/sql is still working. I wouldnt want to do it all on my pc, then upload it all when done, and it all not work anymore. Cheers man. Regards.
I would suggest installing WAMP (Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP) and downloading all of the files from your server, then making the changes in your computer and after making sure everything is working uploading it back to your server. On a side note, you should really use php includes to avoid having to manually change every page in the future when you make an update. For example you could include the navigation.html file on every page and when you want to add a new navigation item you just have to edit this file once. More on PHP includes: http://www.ibdhost.com/help/templates/ http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Basic-PHP-Includes/9735 http://www.depiction.net/tutorials/php/includes.php
Cheers man, that seems like a good idea. i've downloaded WAMP, i'm now just trying to find a way to download EVERYTHING off my website. -- sql/files/everything. Cheers man for the help