Chapter 12. Website Maintenance and Management

 

If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to expect a few blisters.

 
 --Anonymous

Everyone pines for those uncomplicated days when maintaining a website was simply a matter of updating HTML files. Alas, that is no longer the case; today’s e-commerce businesses are more robust, complex and demanding than ever before. As a result, more and more e-commerce operators are adopting an effective website maintenance and management system that syncs with their overall business scheme.

Incorporate in your website’s blueprint a system to refine and to update not only your web pages to keep them fresh and new, but also your entire infrastructure to take advantage of new and evolving technology. In doing so, you ...

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