That's not quite what I was thinking about. Under my scenario, part of
the site would be in the old structure/look and feel, and part of the
site would be in the new structure/look and feel. Simultaneously. It
might take a couple months to get the entire thing converted over.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian V Bonini [mailto:b-bonini(at)cox.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 8:32 AM
> To: amcbainezzell(at)alum.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: piecemeal rebuild of web site?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 09:58, Ann Ezzell wrote:

<clip>

> > I despair of ever getting around to rebuilding this thing, 
> so I've been
> > thinking about trying to do it in pieces - as I'm asked to 
> add content
> > or revise content from the existing site, maybe I could put 
> that content
> > into the new structure, and eventually move the entire site 
> over to the
> > new one.
> > 
> > Is this a sure road to insanity?
> > 
> 
> Sure, what I did was separate all the existing content from the basic
> layout and design. Build a "template", dump all the existing content
> into a database (markup and all) and then just pull that into the new
> template. Then you can just rebuild the markup for the content as you 
> have to update it. Or if it's pretty straight forward just strip the
> markup and format it dynamically as it's applied to the site template.
> 
> -B

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