The first step is planning. It's amazing how many people just plunge right it and start writing HTML with no plan at all. As a starting point, we should know what we have already. Do a site survey; check out not only the obvious pages but all the little nooks and crannies of your site as well. Look for pages that are in your directories but don't seem to be linked into anywhere else—they may have links from outside. A good example of this might be a page called "servers.html" in your root directory, which may be a remnant from the early days of the Web, when there was an attempt to link in all Web servers. If you find pages that are not linked from you site, you can check to see if they are linked to from outside your site by entering the complete URL as a search term in a search engine such as Altavista. High-traffic pages, especially those with a great number of external links, may need to remain in place even though they will get a new look and feel. As you design your new site, you should take into account the existing site but don't let preexisting pages and structures lock you into anything in the process; we will handle their existence later in the project. Design your site to be clean and functional; we're not going to go into detail about this here as this article is not about design per se but rather the site redesign process. Without going into detail, you should plan the site on paper so the structure and flow of the site is clear before you begin to build it. Plan, plan, plan. Have a good idea of what you will do before you ever grasp your mouse or put your fingers to the keyboard. TO PART 2 -->>