After a long development (starting in September 2007), KP Direction launched a redesign of the Greyhound Gang website in February.

The challenge was to redesign a successful website whilst keeping (and hopefully increasing) the sites existing visitor numbers and Google Page Rank. A further challenge was taking another companies page designs and turning them into a website with a consistent look and feel.

The site was initially all in HTML apart from Auction software; the new site is designed entirely in PHP, using MySQL as the database.

Challenges include the bimonthly updates of auctions, contests, special offers and ad-hoc updates of news items. Many of these were done on the old site manually, which was extremely labour intensive on the Monday-evening turnarounds. The new site has a time-sensitive staging area so that these changes can be constructed days, weeks or even months in advance, and the system will automatically switch them over at the designated time.

The site has been live since the middle of February, and the visitor numbers are staying stable, with the site now back up to it's previous Page Rank level. The sites owners have a website maintenance contract with KP Direction, and we look forward to the imminent redevelopment project to integrate auction software into the look and feel of the site.

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