Working with 100+ webpage’s
Good day,
About 1 year ago I joined a training company as a PowerPoint developer, out of luck I moved onto become the web developer. When I started the company’s website was about 20 html pages, which were put together really badly.
My task has been to improve the website, so 1 year later I find myself with a website with 100+ html pages. Because I’ve had no experience dealing with a site this big im always looking for ways to improve my work flow
My question is, what methods do you used for making, updating and controlling you website?
Personally, I;
• Dreamweaver (Coding/Uploading)
• CSS as much as I can
• Templates (I have about 10 different, are libraries better?)
• Validated to XHTML 1.0 Strict
• Photoshop for graphics
Basically do you have any tips or suggestion to improve my work flow?
Regards,
Lee
Megan posted this at 14:44 — 23rd August 2007.
She has: 11,421 posts
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I also work on a large website - probably about 200 pages or more. Keeping files strictly organized in folders is very important.
We are using dreamweaver templates - this is partly so that other staff members can easily make changes to the site using Macromedia Contribute. Dreamweaver is a life-saver for sites like this. With a defined site you can automate a lot - searching/replacing, things like that. And you can move files around and change their names without worrying about breaking links. It fixes everything automaticlaly.
I am strugling with the number of CSS files I have - there's a few basic ones (fonts & colours, layout, print), then about 20 specific ones for paritcular pages or types of content (forms, rounded corners, plus individual pages with specialized designs).
It's a bit of a mess! I would consider moving to a CMS but I kind of have to stick to the larger company standard. CMS's have their own limitations though.
Megan
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sitesupport posted this at 21:53 — 23rd August 2007.
He has: 190 posts
Joined: Jun 2007
I havn't had a website quite that big yet, but folders and css files are extremely important, even for a site with only 60 pages. I use the same css file for all my pages (of course its got alot of coding inside it) and i can have the content on all my pages arranged differently (left1-5, right1-5, ect.).
demonhale posted this at 05:07 — 24th August 2007.
He has: 3,278 posts
Joined: May 2005
Yeah, manage it with a single css so I can make updates on the look of the site at one go, a commercial grade CMS is also helpful for making pages and managing content...
Depending on the purpose of the site, theres a bunch of special purpose CMS out there...
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