Redesign a website without putting the site down?

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I have a website that my company want to redesign it. The design in PSD is ready, but looks like there are lot of changed to do and might take a week or more to make the changed.

So, I wonder what is the best ways to make changed without putting website down, because it's a referral website. So lot of people sign in during the day.

Any advise?

Thank you.

Posted 11-Nov-13 4:28am

Yafa Su

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-11T04:55:00

You need to copy a Web site and do all the redesign work on this copy. For this purpose, you need to install the HTTP server and all required modules and tools on the development computer. Then, you will need to test and possibly fix the site in the Web. You can create a mirror and do all testing and fixing work on the mirror.

As the final step, you can replace old site with the new version at once. But you can better exclude disruptions like broken links even for this quick period of time when you copy. If you want it, you can simply move the site to the host where your mirror is. For this purpose, you can simply modify DNS data to make your site's domain name pointing to a new host. If this situation should not be permanent, you can do one more step: when DNS no longer points to the old site host (you will need to give some time for DNS propagation), you can remove old site and copy the content of the new site to the location of old version of the site. At this moment of time, you have two identical site. And now, you can modify DNS data again, to make DNS showing to the original site host. You are done.

—SA