I recently re-designed my main website, and
learned quite a bit about CSS and XHTML in the process. I also learned
that there are a number of things you should do before re-designing a
site, and thought I would list them here for folks who are looking to
change their site layout:
- Validate your documents with a free
validator
- See how your site loads in various
browsers
- Sketch out how you want thing to look before you start coding
- Make sure to design with the future in mind (this especially applies
to associating CSS classes with tags)
- Make sure you consult best practices
- Read a good CSS
reference
before you begin
- Make sure you integrate USEFUL ads into your website (this will
help cover hosting costs, which aren’t free)
- Ask an expert what they like and dislike
about your site
- Verify that your site doesn’t have broken
links
- Implement things iteratively (there is no need to do everything at
once)
Keeping these things in mind will made re-designing your site quite a
bit easier, and may even turn up some surprises that you weren’t aware
of.
This article was posted by Matty on 2009-07-10 08:27:00 -0400 -0400