Websites and Keeping Up
I’ve been moving my website to a new platform, a CMS running Joomla. This Web 2.0 technology promises easier management of my website and more robust performance.
So far, it has just been painful, but we are starting to check links, so it won’t be long before I can move on to making trouble someplace else.
One reader asked whether I would recommend it. Depends.
My website was designed in 1996, using tables. At that time it was on the cutting edge of the technology. This was before Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or templates were possible.
By 2006, it looked dated. Actually, by 2004 it was starting to look dated, by 2005 I knew it really needed an update and it became unfashionably dated by 2006.
Also, it has over 200 pages and thousands of links. If I needed to manage anything, much of it was a manual operation.
I’d installed templates in 2001, but not everything could be kept in the templates. The site became too junky looking and dated.
Is it worth it? Don’t know yet. I’m hoping the learning curve is nominal. I’m very glad I found someone to do the migration who seems to be carefully hooking everything up.
Is it necessary? Yes, because the longer I wait, the more difficult it becomes to migrate to current technology. No sense waiting any longer.Would I recommend it?
If you have more than 50 pages, yes, you will be better off in the long run, and maybe save time and money in the short run. If your site is smaller than that, it can wait.
Heck, someday, someone may offer programmed translators to migrate websites!
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