Re: Opinions on site redesign

First, check your site log files.  See how many requests (or 404s) are being
made to "favicon.ico".  That will give you an idea of how many IE users are
bookmarking your pages.

If you are totally restructuring the site, I would suggest making a very
friendly 404 page, explaining the restructuring, links to the main
categories, a search box, etc.

Another idea might be to search Google for:

link:yoursite.com

That will give you an idea of the amount of people who are linking to pages
within your site.

Just a few ideas, hope it helps,

Tim



http://www.timbooker.com/






----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Heliker" <Michael.Heliker(at)ncrel.org>
To: "'Hwg-Techniques'" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:50 PM
Subject: Opinions on site redesign


> hello all,
>
> At work, we redesign/change our sites fairly frequently. Logically
> speaking, it would make a lot of sense for us to rearrange the directory
> structure. However, we are in the education field and what we often end up
> doing is leaving many of the same file/directory names because we're
afraid
> that people have indicidual pages bookmarked and we don't want to tick
> off/annoy our audience. It's frustrating because we either end up with a
> LOT of 'kruft' on our site (old pages or lot's of redirects). Mind you, we
> have absolutely NO evidence that people are bookmarking ANYTHING on our
> site, let alone specific pages. We do, however, have many links throughout
> our site and we don't want to break those in the process.
>
> I want to be able to come up with an argument that we don't have to
> do this. That if we redesign our sites, I want to say it's "ok" to
> restructure it, too. Sometimes, it doesn't matter. But, sometimes it just
> makes a lot of sense.
>
> I wa curious what you folks think of this sort of thing and how you
> deal with/rationalize this sort of thing.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Michael
>
>
> > --------------------------------------
> > Michael Heliker
> > Web Designer
> > Technology Systems Department, NCREL
> > http://www.ncrel.org
> > --------------------------------------
>

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