Renovating a Website Part One

Designing a website from the ground up isn’t an easy undertaking. There are so many things that are unknown. Are people going to visit the site? How will it be used? What will the site be known for? There are probably hundreds of questions that could be asked when building from the ground up. What about an existing site though?

Renovating an existing website brings a different set of challenges with it. Existing content can be a challenge, but the beauty of the blog format is that it fades away as new posts are created. What about existing layout features though? Deciding what to keep, remove and add can be quite an adventure in thought.

EE Design is a great example of this very situation. The site has some content in place, but it has been neglected and needs some content love. From the design perspective, it needs an overhaul. The site also could use some new features to give it more value.

So to begin this process, my first step is evaluate what the site currently has:

Articles: 43 articles
Downloadable Templates: 18 templates
Design: Design dates back nearly three years
About page
Archives page
Sites page
Submit page

The next step is to figure out what to do with that information and what to add to it. Be on the look out for part two of Renovating a Website.

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