New Website!
Chris Tong
June 6, 2024
(last updated: October 14, 2024)
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The Adi Da Up Close site is huge: nearly 2,000 web pages at this point! It probably will take several months to convert the entire site to the new design. While we could wait until we completed that, and then release the entire new site all at once, I've decided instead to release the new site incrementally, making web pages in the new design style available as we convert them. This will allow several things to happen:
- Site visitors will immediately begin to benefit from the pages that have been converted. This will be felt especially by the mobile phone visitors to our site, who are increasing in number with each passing year. (Statistics as of Q1 2023: Web visitors spent 56.8% of their online time on mobile phones; and 95.8% of all people who surf the Web use mobile phones to do so, at least now and then.)
- More people will find our website, because our search engine listings on Google should immediately start getting higher rankings. (Google prefers mobile-friendly pages.)
Thus far (as of September 6, 2024), we have upgraded appoximately 63% of the website, including the following pages (out of a total of 1,904 pages):
- the Home Page
- the Audio/Video Library — the 1,204 individual audio/video clip pages, along with the pages for listing and selecting clips.
- The main (index) pages for the sections of the website. Completed thus far:
Of course, during this period when we're upgrading our site, a visit to our site may include some pages in our new design style, and some in our old design style. Hopefully you won’t find this experience confusing! In the meantime, we’ll continue to work as fast as we can to finish the conversion of all the remaining, old-style pages.
If you run into any technical problems with the new site, please let me know.