The easiest a web master does is perhaps updating the information. Adding new pages may be the next easiest, if no trouble has occurred in collecting information and the web master has the skills and ideas of creating the new pages.

The most complex of web maintenance, not including web administration,  is restructure, especially when you got over 500 pages in the server without any documentation.

Figuring out the relations between old pages takes time, but is what you have to do. The logic of links may be clarified, and certain hierarchical relations are needed to be presented in the new design.

What often puzzle me in restructuring is how to handle those users who directly hit the url of the old pages. Surely, they will get an automatic response saying the pages are not available. But, if you have been such a user, you may feel upset about the appearance of another ghost site. To help the users as possible, I usually add a redirection page at the location of the old page to guide the user to the new page, but, on the other hand, by doing so, the structure of the site does not improve at all, for the old unnecessary folder will continue existing.

If you got better ideas, please contact me.

Tips for updating pages:

• Use the editor that was used to create the original pages. If you don't know what editor was used to create the pages, then use Notepad or SimpleText, and avoid using FrontPage or Netscape Communicator - they may corrupt code and change the original designs.