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Originally Posted by kgun
Urbanxtremes: Interesting arguments.
May be a side note. Did you read my post at the top of this page regarding XML. You can use CSS and XSL(T) to style XML documents. What is your opinion of pure XML driven sites? Do you think that is the next wave?
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I did indeed read your post, and could not agree more. XML documents can provide many advantages. If you create a well styled RSS feed, then you can start gaining advantages of the Search Feeders. I don’t really have much time to spend writing a blog, but decided to do a trial and test the effectiveness of them. So, I took one of the shelf and started playing around with it. I wrote a few articles and general stuff. Then started working on the SE and Feeders, now this blog has no external linking in or any SE rankings. So it is pretty much hidden. After loading content the site started receiving traffic. The blog has been live since 25/10/07 and from zero unique visitors the traffic has risen to 80 unique per-day. OK, nothing to write home about. But, that is not a bad rise in what is effectively 14 day old site. My point is that; looking at the stats of the blog I can see the following, which are separate from the 80 unique visitors: On the 08/11/07 the blog received 39 feeder spider hits and 11 SE Spiders. This has been a steady rise from the date the blog was built. From this short experiment I am now writing an application to convert my personal news site database to create an XML feed for its specific news section. This should generate a considerable more amount of traffic. So yes, XML is very important.
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Originally Posted by janeth
So it will hurt your site, not help it.
I am not a designer but I am wondering why the page names will need to change?
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Most large companies use specific CMS systems, and rebuilding a site does not necessarily follow the same database tables that the present site has, hence, and a new database would have to be written to accommodate the new site. This would mean that all the present URLs would be effectively redundant. Thus, affecting your ranking as the links will be broken.
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Originally Posted by Webnauts
Just curious: Does your hosting company provide you unlimited brandwidth?
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The company I work for does have unlimited bandwidth; not only that but has to have unlimited space as well. Under FSA rules, everyday the site has too be duplicated and saved for six years… Now that is a bloody nightmare.
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Originally Posted by MuNKyonline
I think you have exaggerated quite a lot here on the costs for developing a website in CSS compared to tables. I dont know of any companies anywhere that would charge something like that for one page lol. You must be looking in the wrong places if you're getting quotes like that!
Tables would take far longer to load, as BJ has pointed out, increasing the bandwidth usage.
If anything, I can create an accessible website in CSS/XHTML far more quickly than I could when I built websites in just tables controlled by CSS. So my labour expenses are less.
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I am not the one exaggerating, I am the one complaining... If I had my way, I would build it myself... But then I don't hold the SLA with that development company. That figure is not a cost for frontend work, that is what I have to do. They are the backend guys.