A logistics problem when designing a new site.

[bwood]

So I've promised a refurbishment of a site for a country music performer. He's got his own domain etc. Simple site - 5 pages - many photos. Sites working well.

I'm going to leave that site up until the new design is ready to go.

When the new site is ready - do I simply trash all the old site files uploaded to my service provider - and do a fresh upload of the new site ?

I realize this is probably an elementary question - but I seem to recall that wiping everything from the old site from my c'panel caused a problem with the index page especially.

Thanks all,
Bill

[gwpriester]

You can simply publish over the old site, but it is probably better to delete all the current files and then republish.

[Acorn]

So I've promised a refurbishment of a site for a country music performer. He's got his own domain etc. Simple site - 5 pages - many photos. Sites working well.
I'm going to leave that site up until the new design is ready to go.
When the new site is ready - do I simply trash all the old site files uploaded to my service provider - and do a fresh upload of the new site ?
I realize this is probably an elementary question - but I seem to recall that wiping everything from the old site from my c'panel caused a problem with the index page especially.
Thanks all, Bill

Bill, it ought not be a problem. The index page issue is probably because the default loo0ked for is index.html. If you are up loading .htm files then you probably changed the .htaccess file to redirect to .htm. Do check if there is an .htaccess file present and retain that.

I might delete the index_htm_files folder totally and keep the HTM files and just overwrite those.
Then check for old timestamps and remove those.

Acorn

[Egg Bramhill]

I'd create a sub-folder 'old-site' and publish the old site to it. Then you could delete the content of current site when required and upload the new site.

That way you have a copy of your old site in the sub-folder.

[gwpriester]

Good point Egg. A backup copy. Just in case.

[bwood]

Gary- Egg - Acorn. Thanks gentlemen.