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Eliminating website ROT

Eliminating website ROT

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Eliminating website ROT

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- [Instructor] Did you get stuck with a website redesign? It's like an archeological dig, sifting through all those layers of content through the years. Even though it's tedious, it's well worth reading through all of your content as you start the redesign process. Track where it came from and be ruthless about what's worth keeping. What's isn't worth keeping? Anything that suffers from ROT. ROT stands for redundant, outdated, and trivial. Inevitably, you will find some ROT on your website. It just happens through the years. We are pack rats with websites. All of those press releases from 2004, the event registrations from events 15 years ago, and silly things we say on websites that just aren't needed. In an ideal world, you'll say something once on your website and either link to it or find a way to redisplay that information everywhere else you'd like it to appear on the site. Why is that? Because otherwise, you'll put a piece of information here, another there, a third thing…

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