 |
|
Contact
Tammy today and start seeing results from your
website!
Website Design,
Maintenance and Hosting
Internet Marketing
and Email Campaign Management
CD Catalogs and CD Duplication
Back to Newsletter Directory
| (800)
474-7001 |
tammy@virtualtech.com |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Should more
than one person maintain my site?
|
As your website grows, there may be a point where you decide that it has become too much work for one person to maintain. The
obvious choice is to delegate responsibility for specific sections to separate individuals. Or, you hired a
website design firm to get
your site up and running but want to maintain parts of it yourself, while leaving the "heavy duty" programming to the "experts".
While this may sound like a good idea on the surface, like any project it takes some pre-planning and "rule following". The main
thing to keep in mind is the possibility of inadvertently overwriting the work someone else just got done creating. This is more
complicated than it may seem, since a Web page is made up of several components which may or may not be shared with other
pages on the site.
As an example, let's say that you are updating a page which we will call "widget.htm". You decide that you would like to add a
picture to the page. So you add the picture, which has a filename of "widget.jpg", to your page and save your work.
Here is the problem: that picture does not exist only on that page. It is a graphic in a directory which we will call "images", and the
picture does not technically reside on that page, but is simply linked to that page from the "images" directory. Unbeknownst to you,
there was another graphic in that directory with the same filename. That picture was linked to several other pages within the site.
Without realizing it, by adding that one picture, you have changed all those other
pictures to the one you just added.
Another, more common, mistake is to have the entire
website located on your hard drive so you can work on it offline. Another
person also has the site saved to their machine. You each have certain pages that you are responsible for. So, you make your
updates and upload the entire site. The next day, your co-worker makes changes to their pages and uploads the entire site. What
has happened is that your changes did not exist on your co-worker's machine, and all of your updates were overwritten by the older
files on your co-worker's machine.
These are just examples of may of the pitfalls of dividing responsibility for
website maintenance. If it makes sense to have more
than one person working on your site, it is very important to pre-plan the process and ensure that everyone involved knows exactly
what files are safe to change, and which ones are "off-limits". Communication is a MUST. If it is necessary to update files which
may affect more than the pages you are responsible for, it is imperative that you notify everyone involved so that new files do not
inadvertently become overwritten by older files. It can be done... but the process can become much more complicated than it may
appear. |
|
|
|
|
New
Service Offered at Virtualtech!
Email Campaign Management
Stay in touch with your clients and potential clients with
an Email Marketing Campaign!
Learn
More! |
|
|
We will get results from your website! |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Window
and Door Central, formally Marvin
Window and Door Center, located in Appleton,
Wisconsin offers an extensive selection of Marvin windows and doors. |
|
|
|
What
makes a person want to come back to my site? |
| According to Arthur Andersen, a highly
regarded online information company, the following are reasons way people
return to a Web site. The ratings were based from 0 to 100% with the
higher the percentage, the more important the issue. |
- Ease Of Use/Navigation: 74%
- Fast Download Time: 65%
- Regularly Updated Information: 58%
- Quality Of Content: 57%
- Organization Of Content: 40%
- Access To Customer Service: 40%
- Quantity Of Content: 30%
- Search Engine At The Site: 25%
- Home Page Layout: 20%
- Fun: 19%
- Look And Feel Of The Site: 18%
- Inclusion Of Animated Graphics: 9%
If your site is an online store, then the two most
important factors to your visitors are:
- Easy Order Processing: 68%
- Security Procedures: 65%
The survey was conducted between March 30 and April 3,
2001, and is based on responses from 990 online users surveyed by
Knowledge Systems & Research Inc. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(920) 954-1923
(800) 474-7001
tammy@virtualtech.com
http://www.virtualtech.com |
|
|
|
|
|