Total site remodel questions

[Guest]

I recently adopted a county genealogy website that contains a lot of useful
data. Unfortunately, the website is poorly designed, not very attractive and
disorganized. It is in need of a complete remodel and overhaul. I've
purchased a great new template and reading up on how to use FrontPage 2003. I
already have a fairly good knowledge of html. My question is about the best
way to go about replacing the old site with the new one.

Is this the correct procedure?
1. Copy and save the current/old website to my computer (I attempted this
using FP, but I don't think it copied all the pages of the site, so I'll have
to keep experimenting with that ... or manually save all the pages?)
2. Start building the new website by adding new data and the old content
from the original pages with copy n' paste when possible.
3. Delete all of the old website files off the server/file manager.
4. Publish the new website to the server.

Are these all the correct steps? Any other suggestions? I thank you for your
help, as I've found lots of information about website building in general,
but not much that addresses steps for replacing one.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

If your current online web has the FP extensions installed. Open it "live" and Publish down to your local hd...save it so you know it's the old web...genealogy_old or something like that.

Then on your local machine design your new web..maybe save it as genealogy_new. Since you now have the old and new on your local machine you can use elements of the old (Import images from old) into the new design. Once you are happy with your locally stored new web...you can delete your old web off the server and just Publish the genealogy_new web to the correct url on the server.

(this is just an overview if you need specifics just come on back here)

If you Imported the old web instead of Publishing it to your hd, then that's why you only have parts of it...Import only brings down what the browser sees. Use Publish instead.

 

[Guest]

Thanks so much for the speedy reply. I think that all makes sense to me ...
I'll give it a whirl!

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

yer welcome

Thanks so much for the speedy reply. I think that all makes sense to me ...
I'll give it a whirl!