Hi Clare,
Got to take my hat off to the way your site is coming along. At the stage you are at now, I would Seriously, Seriously, consider looking into using a database for the amount of info you may end up with. At the moment, you only have a few hundred listings & this is more than manageable in BV. But if you keep going as you are to hopefully many thousands of ads, I think you will run into problems with maintaining a large amount of data doing it this way, & loose out on other advantages you will have with all this available info you will have.
The other advantage of a database is
- The flexibility of been able to look & extract information in many different ways.
- Being able to adapted & manipulate the information for your self & others to use.
- Being able to have a lot more than one person working on the system at any one time.
- Being able to make up mailing lists very easily.
- Being reminded automatically of sponsored adds need to pay their bills.
- Backing up your data on mysql & to another disc / machine. (this can be set up to auto back up every day if you wished. (Automatically) ..)
As things in the net world change, we all have to change with it. So just as a very un-lightly scenario, lets say vodahost went bankrupted (please, please don’t) or for some reason you wanted to leave (can’t see why) & your site is set up as it is at the moment. You wont be able to use your pages with another host as they wont work & how long would it take to re type or cut & paste your work into a new site.????????
But if your info was on a database & set up right, you would be able to go to another host & load this info onto a new site within possibly a few hours, rather than weeks
As I say it’s only an idea, but would hate to see so much good work not being able to be used to its full potential & being possibly lost if an IT disaster of some sort was to happen.
Good luck.
PS. Think you will have some fun trying to have 2 of you on two machines working on the same site. I would at least separate it into separate directory’s to enable the ease of being able to find things on the server, & you can then just say i will work on a
specific area/directory. So you may end up with?
http://www.fuerteventurabusinessdire.../1sthotel.html http://www.fuerteventurabusinessdire.../1stbandb.html http://www.fuerteventurabusinessdire...tcampsite.html
and so on.