Website Maintenence
Website Maintenance is generally regarded as being the "odd jobs" that need doing from time to time on a website.
Content
The wish to add extra pages to an existing website is simple maintenence. I can copy code from existing pages for the layout and style of the new ones and simply add the content that you wish. If new stylesheet rules need creating that can be done too.
The addition of new pages to an existing navigation structure is not a problem unless you feel that the existing navigation structure is becoming unwieldy.
Navigation
If your existing navigation structure is becoming unwieldy, for example the left side navigation bar is disproportionate to the content, then a rethink is required.
There are different styles of menu that may suit your requirements. Maybe if your site is expected to continue growing different subsections are required, maybe even subsection heading pages. There are different practical ways of solving this problem depending upon the number of pages that need linking in.
Cascading Style Sheet as against graphical links, Flash Buttons or even plain text linkage.
The more aware of you will be thinking, what about javascript? Fair enough but what about the percentage of internet users who browse with Javascript turned off on security grounds? I do not do Javascript navigation.
There are advantages to each of the above methods.
- Cascading Style Sheet linking: - Suitable for any size of website - the favourite for search engines.
- Plain Text linking: - suited only to small websites - good for search engines, but harder to find for casual browsers.
- Graphical linking: - Mainly used on small websites - not as good for search engines unless backed up by text links either contained within the website content, or situated at the foot of the page.
- Flash Buttons: - Used on smaller websites mainly. Ultimately customisable and can contain animation. Search engines cannot read the links so they have to be backed up by other links either in the text or at the foot of the web page.
This is not to say that Cascading Style Sheet links cannot have graphical backgrounds. To illustrate the above points I would like to deaw your attention to an example of each.
- A J Autosalvage: - Flash Buttons at the top backed up by plain text links at the bottom of the web page
- Harbury Marquees: - Cascading Style Sheet styled links
- Warwickshire Proofreading: - A Microsite really with only two pages. Navigation to the second page is via a plain text link at the foot of the first page.
- The links on this Administered Websites website are excellent examples of Cascading Style Sheet links.
