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I am redesigning a website for a company. How can I build a new site and make the switch?

  • They already have their html website with a domain name, they want to keep the domain name but completely redesign the website. How can I build an entirely new site and then make it so that when the domain is typed in, or entered in a search engine that it will load the new site. Should I build the website under a different domain and then transfer the original name over? Will that effect SEO. Should I build the new site offline using WAMP and then load it onto the existing server? Thanks!

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    All sites are running on web servers on the internet, and all machines on the internet have IP addresses. You can see this in action by typing 'ping anysiteyouwant.com' from a command prompt, and it will show you the site's IP. All you need to do to keep the same URL is point the DNS to the new external IP of the new server. The precise method of doing that is going to depend on how the DNS for that domain is handled. Feel free to contact me here if I can assist further: www.web-synthesis.com

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Please I'm not trying to be criticize you or anything but I have a few questions to ask. I'm assuming that you are probably new to web development - I can't believe a company would hire someone - that is inexperienced - with even the most simplest of questions. Is this a friends business or something? Okay to answer your question(s) > You should develop the site externally first - after it's done upload it to a test sub domain on the domain of the hosting company so you can check for compatibly issues - make sure you password protect it and deny robots so it doesn't get crawled. Once it works and it's tested fully change the subdomain to the www root directory and make changes to the configuration file ( if you have one ). This is also a good time to get feedback from the company. > Yes this is going to affect SEO because it's new content and a new design structure could be bad could be good

JODY Fitzpatrick

you can build all of your pages in html and then test them in a browser (offline - just open the file location and you will see what it looks like). There's no need to create subdomains or host on another account while your building in html. Be sure when you go live that internal links are pointing to a live site url and the right folders e.g Images/ Once live you will need to do a 301 redirect of old pages to the ones that you have replaced them with e.g Our_Services.html to services.html. If you are not changing the file name you don't need to redirect anything. Your seo will largely only be affected if you change your urls, titles and descriptions. If you change urls, make sure any incoming links are updated to the new urls

Scott

You redesign your site, makes sure all pages are good, links are good ,etc. Then one day, start adding/replacing pages, all but the index page. When all other pages are uploaded and old pages removed from the server, publish you index page. Now spend the next day or two going over that site and making sure links work, it works in different browsers etc. It will take a week or two for the new pages to propagate on the net, but that is how I do my site refits, when I do them.

Palladini

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