Hello everyone,
Yesterday Jill and I spent 2 hours with our IT guy discussing a new website. I wanted to share some overall thoughts as well as how this would impact the forum.
First, the plan is to:
Why make the change? Our current design is at least 5 years old and we have been patching it together. Not everything works as it should and things shift too much for my liking.
Also, the website took a massive hit for traffic and revenue last year with a Google update. The hope is a new website layout will encourage Google to love us again and turn that trend around.
Thank you for your patience.
Yesterday Jill and I spent 2 hours with our IT guy discussing a new website. I wanted to share some overall thoughts as well as how this would impact the forum.
First, the plan is to:
- Speed up page loading times
- Stop items from shifting on the screen
- Make font larger and easier to read
- Make photos wider
- Add more white space throughout the website which should cut down on how spammy some ads are displayed
- Improve how the website looks on mobile
- Automate creating posts for every new story on the website
- Move all article comments to the forum
- Improve page loading speed
Why make the change? Our current design is at least 5 years old and we have been patching it together. Not everything works as it should and things shift too much for my liking.
Also, the website took a massive hit for traffic and revenue last year with a Google update. The hope is a new website layout will encourage Google to love us again and turn that trend around.
Thank you for your patience.
