My website started over 12 years ago with 6 pages, and I've just added on and on, updated it, changed the look (dreamweaver templates) but never really given it the thought it needed as to what pages go where. It now has over 80 pages of information, most of which is static, and it is a bit of a jumble.
I've tried to switch over to Wordpress but have decided it isn't working for me (a quarter of the site is in Wordpress, the rest was created with dreamweaver). So much of my site is static, and articles which were blogs need to be in the main part of the site, as we constantly refer to them, even though they may be 2 or 3 years old. So the site is going to switch back, but the plan is to rebuild it from scratch and give it a whole overhaul in the process, planning through the actions users take when visiting the site, to improve the user experience. This will all be done on a testing server, as the current site is a mess. 95% of the work will be done by me and my assistant.
What I'm looking for is some advice as to project planning and mapping this, whether there are some established systems we could be working to, to help plan, map out the new website and simplify the project.
I've used google but there seems so much info, it is difficult to find out what is best amongst all the noise.
Any advice, help or guidance gratefully appreciated.
I'm after some website planning advice.
My website started over 12 years ago with 6 pages, and I've just added on and on, updated it, changed the look (dreamweaver templates) but never really given it the thought it needed as to what pages go where. It now has over 80 pages of information, most of which is static, and it is a bit of a jumble.
I've tried to switch over to Wordpress but have decided it isn't working for me (a quarter of the site is in Wordpress, the rest was created with dreamweaver). So much of my site is static, and articles which were blogs need to be in the main part of the site, as we constantly refer to them, even though they may be 2 or 3 years old. So the site is going to switch back, but the plan is to rebuild it from scratch and give it a whole overhaul in the process, planning through the actions users take when visiting the site, to improve the user experience. This will all be done on a testing server, as the current site is a mess. 95% of the work will be done by me and my assistant.
What I'm looking for is some advice as to project planning and mapping this, whether there are some established systems we could be working to, to help plan, map out the new website and simplify the project.
I've used google but there seems so much info, it is difficult to find out what is best amongst all the noise.
Any advice, help or guidance gratefully appreciated.