Splitting our Website into two sites

We have decided we need to break up our current website into two different sites. This site will basically stay the same at this time while some new content will be added to the new site as some old content evolves to the new site with updates. There are three different reasons justifying this action.

1. Clarifying our breeding strategy and detailed justification with video. I recently watched the ABGA National Show and saw the amazing bigger, heavier, wider and longer animals. They are impressive to see but we do not want to breed for that type of Boer and we want to explain why we don't want to breed for that type of look. We will justify why we have made this decision many years ago.

2. We need better organization of info on our current website. It is getting harder to find the proper place to add new articles and information to the current website that would be easy for visitors to find. I have had a difficult time finding some information that I knew was on the website but I could not remember where I placed it.

3. I need new software for creating websites. I have been using Windows Frontpage software for creating our website for 14 years. Microsoft quit updating and supporting Frontpage over 8 years ago. I have looked for new software to migrate our website to but we have so much data and different pages, I can't see any way of migrating the current website into some new software and keep it together. I am using some new software to create the new website and learn how to use it along with any potential problems of managing so much information. The new software is Serif WebPlus X5 and I am liking what I am seeing and the capability it gives me that Frontpage did not.

The new website address is www.raisingboers.com . It is not completed. I am only in the stage of creating some initial framework and navigation. The content I am wanting to put into the new website will be focused more our local, specific farm activity such as the following:

• How our farm is laid out and how we operate it.

• The breeding strategy we use with detail information and justification of how our strategy differs from some of the industry strategies creating the current "show oriented" animals that the Boer associations have led breeders to evolve to.

• Specific info on how we manage our breeding program and raising our herd

• Specific info on the most common diseases or health issues we have seen or hear about from other people and how to try treating those problems.

We are still trying to decide if we can move the pages of our breeding herd, animals for sale, etc. That will not be considered at this time. Mainly because search engines have those pages listed very high and we can't take a chance on losing that.