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Posted by Oli Filth on 06/05/05 16:41
Hywel Jenkins said the following on 05/06/2005 13:57:
> In article <9U5oe.26354$d5.176827@newsb.telia.net>,
> jaggillarfotboll@telia.com says...
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>>> * It has no overall message and could do with being split into three
>>> sites:
>>>- one offering translation services
>>>- one offering holiday/accomodation services
>>> - one selling shoes/trinkets/furniture/etc
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>>This alternative would cost much more money to me, especially when I want to
>>have a https connection.
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> Why do you want HTTPS? None of the content I've seen benefits from the
> use of SSL.
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Because Luigi likes to reinvent the wheel, and prefers to waste time
offering pointless things like a choice between HTTP and HTTPS, and PHP
and HTML versions, and make visited links disappear (but only for 15
minutes), rather than making his page user-friendly or aesthetically
pleasing, or structured. (IMHO)
To Luigi:
Toby is right when he says that you need to re-design your site from
scratch (if you're serious about your business). Your site looks very
much the same as it did in November, i.e. a sprawling mess. You've been
trying to juggle HTTPS and HTTP versions, PHP and HTML versions, and a
multitude of languages, and it has got you nowhere.
There is *absolutely* *no* reason for offering both an HTML and a PHP
version, and no sensible reason for offering both an HTTP and HTTPS
version. Stop worrying about pointless details like these, and
concentrate on making your site user-friendly and pleasant to look at.
In its present state, I seriously doubt that your website will attract
any customers. If I were a potential customer, I would turn away as soon
as I got to your home page. No customer is going to be impressed by the
fact that your site is "Valid HTML 4.01 strict!" and "Valid CSS!", or
having a choice between HTTPS and HTTP, and PHP or HTML. *Especially*
when the pages look so disorganised and visually unappealing (e.g.
https://www.scaiecat-spa-gigi.com/adsl.html. This is hideous).
If you're serious about your business, then hire a professional to
re-design the HTML/CSS front-end and/or the PHP back-end. It might cost
you, but you'll have a usable website at the end of it.
The longer you go on, adding bits here and there, and hacking away to
make it work, the more difficult it will be to maintain and keep consistent.
For example, you're offering the same pages in 10 languages, but each
version of each page is an entirely separate static HTML file. This
means that every time you want to make one small change to the design of
a page, you'll have to do it 10 times. If you started again, using a
PHP-driven template system, you'd only have to make the changes once,
saving you a huge amount of time, and ensuring that your site stays
consistent.
Other benefits would be a consistent page stucture and navigation
structure, which would be easier to maintain (you'd only have to add new
navigation items once, and *all* of your pages throughout the site would
instantly change).
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Oli
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