Looking for:
- ideas
- articles
- war stories from the trenches
- methods you have used
- wisdom derived from dealing with this before
- anything!
. . . to help convert this site to XOOPS.
The situation:
I have a client with a large site which was created as a bunch of individual pages.
400 to 500 pages, or more.
The site is very successful - well over a million page views per month.
Bandwidth allocation purchased is 600 GB/month.
The site has apparently just grown organically since 1999.
The owners know little about the web.
The web person knows how to make small web sites (a few pages).
The site is like hundreds of tiny web sites.
Each newsletter, article, advertiser, trade show photo collection, etc.
is in it's own directory, with it's own images, and it's own HTML.
This includes the navigation images.
So the same navigation images are on the site hundreds of times. (bandwidth - oink, oink)
All of the navigation images have generic and inconsistent names (image001, image009, etc.).
The page layout, nav images, even the site logo image varies all over the place on the various pages.
There are no templates used anywhere.
There is no consistancy anywhere.
They initially contacted me to help them reconfigure their phpAdsNew setup to do run-of-site ads and section ads.
Since there are no templates, no headers, no footers this is a challenge.
I just looked at the phpAdsNew setup last night.
No zones at all.
~180 advertisers x ~4 ads each = ~720 ads.
All of these ads are placed in the site with phpAdsNew direct selection code.
Kept finding my mouth hanging open.
And kept thinking omigod, omigod.
So, they need to convert to a template based system and use ad zones.
I am trying to visualize how to convert this content to XOOPS.
No consistent header or footer HTML to strip to get to just the content.
Looks like a ton of cut and paste.
Anyone out there who has dealt with a similar situation please share your experiences.
How did you approach the project?
What recommendatios can you make based on your experiences?
Anyone know of any online articles about this issue?
Thanks to all for your ideas and help.