How Often Site Make Over?

[DeluxeNames]

How often should you do a complete site makeover? Should it be based on when there is a new design format you want to use? Or maybe once a year?

How often do you do site re-designs?

[EhKho]

I usually change mine about twice a year, just basically because I get bored with the design. I'm currently working on Version 4 :)

[Nuvo]

You should change the design when you need to.
Sites which start to die off often benefit from new looks and features designed to bring back the userbase.
Sites which frequently change their designs and code only annoy users who don't want to bother with a site which is going to be down for updates every few weeks or so.
If you want to have the option of changing the look of your site, implement some form of theme support so that you can change the look of the site without breaking it.
If you're trying to add new features, try to do it discreetly without taking the whole site offline as it isn't needed and will only irritate those using your site at the time.

[EhKho]

I should have mentioned that I'm working on version 4 on my local testing server, upload different parts to a different directory to get feedback etc before going live.

[Ginavere]

Hmm.. I have nto changed mine since it went up a few years ago. It should be updated, the format should be changed but I have not found a format I like and can work with. So it stays as it is until I do. BTW, I want to keep my banner so that is another reason it has not been changed. :glasses2: