SEO Guy’s Website Rebuild
Well, regular visitors may have noticed a change of design layout and architecture. After a marathon 3-4 days, during which I’ve been extremely focused and very unsociable, I’ve finally – after a shaky start 5 months ago – now 95% completed the extreme makeover on www.ComAuth.co.nz What a mission! As an aside, for anyone who’s ever wondered – the domain name goes back many years, when I was a free-lance Computer consultant primarily working for Local Authorities (city / district goverment).
Main Site – this was comprsied of a large number of static HTML pages that had evolved over many years – disjointed, complicated, masses of information but not particularly well organised. Previously, it had been managed in MS Frontpage, which was, in 1998, a pretty clever bit of software! Conversion to a WordPress CMS provided an opportunity to solve all perceived site management and maintenance problems.
WordPress Blog – several years old, in a subdirectory, and its content needed to be moved seamlessly to the main site so that all indexed / bookmarked pages were not lost track of by Google / previous visitors / incoming website links etc. This required a Mod-Rewrite auto-301 domain redirection (upwards) on the directory. Unfortunately, the desire to automate the process meant I was stuck with using the same Permalink structure on the new site.. /%postname%.htm instead of the preferred /$category%/%postname.htm
Anyway, its almost all working as it should, with the exception of;
- Search – a part of the “Corporate” theme - using it just generates a blank page…
- Tags – no idea whats up with this – just get a blank page with either Simple Tags or std WordPress tags… but the internal tagging functions all work fine!
- Images: added 255px images in widget areas – they get auto-shrunk to 233px
Must be a template function at work there!
Apologies if you encounter any difficulties – its a work in progress, and may take a week or two to fix everything. Content revision is also ongoing…
