Oct 16 2008
Opinions Needed Again!
So I have been VERY busy working on redoing the main website. This is a little sneak peek of it. I still have a LOT of work to do on it though. I am fumbling through it all pretty well. I knew nothing about Joomla so I just learn as I go. I have finally found a template that I love. It even changes with the seasons. It can change from day to night also but I thought that might be a bit much. People probably do not want to see my website all dark and under a moon.
The more I add to the site though the more I worry that I may have trouble when it comes time to move it up a level and out of testing stage. I would hate to go to all of the trouble of adding all of the pages just to find out that I can not get all the links to work any more. From what I have read up on it I will just have to move the files up a directory and then alter a few files so it knows where the files went. Nothing ever works on the first try for me though and I really am not that sure about the altering of the files. I really have no idea what I am doing I am just a fast learner. I used to always say that you learn the most by fixing your mistakes and I make a lot of mistakes.
Soooooo, I was wondering if once I get the front page all worked out if I should just go live with the site even though it is not done. I would leave the old site in place so old links would still work and search results would still bring people to the old site until I am finished moving everything.
I had wanted to completely add all 200 pages and then have a grand unveiling of the full completed site. I would hate to go to all that trouble though and then find out that the links no longer work and I wasted all that time.
So what do yo think? Would it be bad if I went live with the site even though it does not have all of the pages yet? I would have a message on the front page stating that I am redoing the website. I could probably link to the sections in the old website if people still want to find them. Everything other than the original index page should all remain intact until I delete them. I just worry that I will end up having to redo a lot of the stuff if I do not just go live with it right now. Plus, I am really excited about it and can’t wait to go live. 
So what do you think?
Should I just go live now and add things everyday or would that look bad and I should wait until it is all finished and hope for the best?
