I sometimes arrive on a web site, just to see a sign like: "Our site is currently being updated. Please check back soon."
Why do people do that? It's not like a store, where workmen might drop a hammer on a customer, so you have to close the store. Don't people realize that they are wasting traffic?
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I guess it makes sense, in terms of public relations, to loose some traffic rather than to have people think your site is an ugly, misshapen wreck of invalid HTML, or letting them buy that MacPro for $0.00 ;-)
I'm pretty sure it's technically possible to PLAN the whole thing, and in the end only have the site down for a few minutes, at worst a couple of hours.
What do you think, if your site was concerned, Eolake? How much complication would it take to reorganize it, and to make the switch online?
I've seen several times a big site announce that it would be down for a limited time, announced in advance.
Then again, some sites I had noticed, and revisited again months or YEARS later, still had that same pitiful "under construction" page.
Uhm... are you actually sure you're doing any construction there? I've heard of delays in the field, but this is ridiculous!
Must be the housing bubble losing pressure...
why do you ask such stupid questions...you can't understand the simplest things!
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Off coorse ah hef ter asxe den, whotterya, speshyul or sumpin'?
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I don't know advanced web programming, but if one has done all the work, I can't imagine it needs to take more than a couple hours to upgrade a site. Even if it's a huge number of files and code to be changed, I guess one could just change the hard drive, and then test it.
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