Forum Moderators: mack
I am a forum vet, but a WebMaster World newbie, so I will try and make this as quick and painless as possible.
I have a site that has been my teaching tool, and it has been a worthwhile venture, but now Im starting to get the traffic I am looking for, and I am in a heck of a rush.
It just so happens that I get Dreamweaver about 2 weeks ago, so Ive been learning that, and when Im not watching a tutorial or reading about it, I am word processing like crazy, and I have about 45 original pages out of my head to integrate into my site.
At the moment, it is a static site, that I authored by hand using Notepad++ for coding & FileZilla for FTP. I have a solid grasp of XHTML & CSS, Im in the middle with Javascript, but I understand it well.
I am thinking I need to take advantage of having Dreamweaver and all of it's features now, before I add one more page that has to be redirected.
My questions are, how bad is it going to affect my site by moving towards a database? Is it really detrimental to have redirect pages? And about redirects, how long should it take for the SE's to quit pointing people at the old pages?
I will apreciate any response, I understand you guys are extremely busy here, so I would be equally as happy if you just pointed me in the right direction, I can search with the best of em, but as you know, if one types HTML, you get about 2 billion links.
I do have a couple other questions though, but I think they belong in another forum. Thanks in advance, and sorry for the book, I can't help it, I am like a machine these days.
WillCode4Food
how bad is it going to affect my site by moving towards a database?
Are you worried about speed? Spider-ability?
Is it really detrimental to have redirect pages?
Make sure you are sending the right header codes (301) and avoid situations where a user will be redirected more than a handful of times and you should be alright.
And about redirects, how long should it take for the SE's to quit pointing people at the old pages?
The neat thing about redirects is that even if people hit the old URL, they get redirected too. So, it doesn't much matter. :)
