My Website Can Vote - Building Sites That Last
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This document summarizes the author's experience with their website over 21 years, from initially building it in 1996 to deciding to migrate it to the WordPress platform in 2017. Some of the pros of migrating included improved security, a responsive theme option, plugins, and an easier admin experience. Cons included WordPress being a bigger target, a learning curve, migration efforts, and potential ego issues. The author outlines concerns about linking, organization, and legacy HTML styles. They provide some site stats and next steps which include SSL, link cleanup, new content, design updates, and monitoring stats. The document encourages building sites that last by owning content and avoiding proprietary changes.
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- 1. My Website is Old Enough to Vote Building sites that last Kris Howard aka @web_goddess
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- 15. 4.5 years
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- 19. Fast forward 14 years…
- 20. 19 years
- 21. So what to do?
- 22. Pros • Security - better than what I had • PHP-based • Responsive themes • Plugins! • Better admin UX - including ACL & versioning • Less friction to update
- 23. Cons • Security - WordPress is a big target • Learning curve • Migration effort • Ego - would using WordPress make me look like a n00b?
- 24. Concerns • How to organise the site? How much of the cross-referencing to automate? “This has to be a solved problem, right?” • 20 years of inbound links and PageRank to preserve • Hard-coded HTML styles in the DB to clean up
- 28. Stats
- 29. Money Stuff
- 31. What’s Next • Set up SSL • Mop up broken links • Add new content • Update design once illustrations are finished • Keep an eye on stats & revenue
- 32. Building Sites that Last • Own your stuff - but syndicate where needed • Don’t change your URLs • Avoid proprietary enhancements - stick with standards • PROVIDE GOOD CONTENT