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Using Your Own Website Developer
to Update Your Website

Sometimes IHR clients continue to use IHR hosting, however, they hire an outside website developer to update their website. In this situation, IHR provides server access to the website developer. Although you may discontinue using the IHR website development services, you will continue to use the IHR Hosting/Promotion package, which provides lots of advantages.

IHR strongly recommends that you note the following guidelines if you want to maintain an effective website:

1. It's ideal if your website developer maintains the current file names for your web pages, so that you don't lose traffic from other websites and search engines, which may have taken years to develop. For example, if the developer changes a file name from "contact.html" to "contactus.html" then all current search engine links and any external website links into your site will now become invalid. The search engines may crawl your website and find the new "contactus.html" however, that will depend on how well the site is optimized for search engines.
    
2. If you must change the file names, then set up some web page or server-side redirects, to redirect users from the old file name to the new file name. IHR can help with server-side redirects.
    
3. When IHR develops web pages, we ensure that the pages are optimized for search engines. Make sure that your website developer knows how to optimize your web pages for search engines and maintains an optimization strategy for your website. IHR provides a web page to help - Ensure That Your Site Design is Optimized for Search Engines.
    
4. When IHR builds websites, we extensively use two technologies: server-side includes (SSI) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It would be ideal if your website developer would also use these technologies, which offer the following significant advantages:
   • Make your site easier to maintain. For example, if a website-wide change (e.g., the font colors or navigation bar) is made, IHR can typically update one file to make the website-wide change, rather than having to update dozens of web pages.
   • Provide consistency among your web pages. For example, all your web pages can have needed consistency with your navigation bar or fonts.
      
5. Do not update files or directories you are not familiar with. For example:
   • IHR typically generates hosted website statistics in a "webstats" directory
   • IHR typically adds a custom 404 error page in the "errors" directory.
      
6. In order to continue to use the IHR Hosting/Promotion package, you must keep the IHR links on the bottom of your web pages, as described in the IHR Web Development and Hosting Terms of Agreement page, section D.

By following some of the guidelines above, you can provide additional assurance that your website will continue to function effectively after it's updated. If you or your website developer have any questions or comments, feel free to contact IHR.
 

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