Post submission site improvements

phramer · Mar 14, 2005

Recently, I requested a status report regarding my submission and received a quick response veryfying that it was received and awaiting review.

My question is this: If I see ways to improve my site in the interim, am I allowed to do so?

I hope this is an appropriate matter for this forum.

spectregunner · Mar 14, 2005

Of course you can improve your site. When you submit, all you submit is a URL for us to go check. In our littel universe, your site does not exist until an editor looks at it, so any changes you make (one change or a million changes) are invisible to us. When we review your site, we see it at the instant of the review.

phramer · Mar 14, 2005

Thank you spectregunner.

I guess the scenario I feared most was having the bad luck of making a change to the site at the same exact time that it was ready to be reviewed - with the reviewing editor greeted by some sort of not available message.

spectregunner · Mar 14, 2005

Most editors give it more than one shot -- spaced hours, days, weeks or even months apart -- on unavailable sites.

phramer · Mar 14, 2005

Now I know I will be able to improve my site without apprehension.

Thank you again spectregunner.

oneeye · Mar 14, 2005

Most editors give it more than one shot -- spaced hours, days, weeks or even months apart -- on unavailable sites

On the other hand, many editors, including myself, give a new suggestion one chance only unless they have good reason to suppose it is temporary, e.g. a school or hospital, or there is a known problem with the host.

phramer · Mar 15, 2005

Thank you oneeye.

Since there are many many many ODP editors, I understand that your response is not necessarily at odds with spectregunner's response.

I appreciate both responses and since my site seems to be the "one chance" kind, I will proceed accordingly to chill out until a decision is made - or weigh the importance of a prospective improvement vs. the odds of bad timing.

jimnoble · Mar 15, 2005

If you have improvements you want to make, don't let the prospect of a listing in ODP delay them. If you get them done before an editor reviews your site, s/he'll see it in its full glory - which would be good.

If you enhance the site on a development server first and then update all the pages on the public server in one hit after successful testing, the chances of an editor reviewing the site in mid change are very low.

spectregunner · Mar 15, 2005

What Jim said!

Look at it from this perspective. If you hold off making improvements until an editor gets to it, and it takes an editor a little more than 3 years to get to it, won't you feel really, really bad? And won't you have a huge pile of improvements just gathering dust?

Go for it. Improve that puppy.

phramer · Mar 20, 2005

Thank you for the clarification and encouragement jimnoble and spectregunner.

I will proceed as you advise. As long as I am able, I will seek a better way to convey the topic of my site regardless of an unknown review time by doing as much of the improvement work offline as possible - when I am able.

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