It is a smart move to save as much time as possible in construction, and later, in maintenance, in order for you to have more time in making great content.
When you are building a website, it is important that you have a concrete plan so you will have good direction while you build your design. For example, your keyword research will not only assist you to increase your search engine traffic, rather it will also help you how to choose your menus and content. In the planning stage, you have to cover all possible circumstances that might happen so that in the long run, you can save a lot of time, and you can provide your site a chance to develop in a reasonable manner. Certainly, you would want to have a menu structure on your site that is relevant and organized.
When you arrive at the page design, if you are constructing from new or are upgrading a template, first, you construct just the “index page” and a single “content page” and try it in at least these four browsers: Netscape, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer. If ever there are rendering issues, you must know them as soon as now so that the pages that will need changes or rebuilding will not accumulate to a large number. Also, when you add any page, you have to try many tests on it first before moving on.
When you have developed a functional page design and you are set to add new pages and furnish them with content, the easy way is to save the page complete previously, then save it again, renaming it as the new page. And then, you can alternate the components of your images and texts, preferably, from top to bottom. If you do this, then the page structure of each o your content page will be the same. Obviously, you can have multiple page structures but it is better if you make them the same instead because it will spare you a lot of time and it reduces errors.
An external file that controls a site’s overall look which is called a cascading style sheet file, “.css”, come with some templates. The text colors, button images, font styles, link colors, etc, can be changed in one file, and the whole site will be upgraded at once. This means that the page has been built with a standard text, and the external .css file controls the “look” of the site. This is an ultimate time saver for website maintenance design, if like you change the style of your pages at any stage. An external file also controls the main menu of websites.
It is not necessary that you build these by yourself. These are becoming popular, and are being incorporated into the primary template design of many templates that you can just purchase. Most of the time, the full instructions are given. A good website maintenance plan is what you need, not to learn difficult codes. Through flash files, single standard text files, you can change logo texts with ease too, to change the promotional message. Again, you only have to do change one file because the entire site will automatically be updated.