I am in projecto of redesign an old website and one thing client requested was to avoid put a “under construction” notice and leave his old website there till I have everything done and approved to substitute the old one. What I did was to create a folder named “new” inside his root “htdocs” and I’ve been publishing the tests inside it, so he can what it online and have a real experience till I finished everything. I took care of puting a robot: noindex,nofollow,noarchive to aboid it to be indexed. My question is" Is it a normal procedure or I should do in a different way?
That makes sense and Freeway will help you keep things together, page wise and content wise, once the new site switches over to the main folder on the live set up.
It will also give you an opportunity to get paid first before you switch it over because live sites for customers who don’t pay you right away suddenly want all these features and the project then just drags on and on without you ever seeing anything.
Thank you Dan!
That’s what I thought too. I also like to request an advance before start working for the same reason.
Best,
Marcus
On Mar 15, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Dan J wrote:
That makes sense and Freeway will help you keep things together, page wise and content wise, once the new site switches over to the main folder on the live set up.
It will also give you an opportunity to get paid first before you switch it over because live sites for customers who don’t pay you right away suddenly want all these features and the project then just drags on and on without you ever seeing anything.
Learned a lesson now, currently in ‘negotiations’ for just under £4k
for a bunch of illustrations, artwork and web work. In the future I’ll
be asking for something up front, it’s almost sunk me this time.
Trev
On 15 Mar 2011, at 19:28, Valerio Do Carmo wrote:
Yes. Nowadays, I use to ask it before. In the past I had some
really bad experiences…
On Mar 15, 2011, at 3:00 PM, DeltaDave wrote:
I also like to request an advance before start working for the
same reason.