Reworking existing code, or Oh What Fun rewrites can be.

As I got moving my personal website to a new server this week, I ran into a rather interesting task. You see I had HTML documents that had been coded back in 2001, long before HTML 5 and CSS 3 became the standards they are today.  

This, of course, means way more additional work in bringing the code of these pages up to modern levels, while at the same time maintaining the details of the original documents, and got me to thinking

Are there times where it makes more sense to start from scratch, or is a Website Restoration really the way to go?

And the answer is, of course, there are times where both options are viable and credible options. How someone decided on their path is of course factor driven, the biggest factor being that it may very well cost more to do a Website Restoration due to the fact that your Designer has to dive through existing code, deleting code that is not up to standards and replacing it with HTML 5 Standards. Other parts of code may very well have to be moved over to the being done on the CSS side of the coding instead of the HTML 5 side.

What are your thoughts on Website Restoration, Please leave comments below