Re: building to replace old website

Create your new site all within a folder called "new" (this can be in
your root directory) so it would be www.site.com/new. Make all of your links
relative to the new folder and when you are ready to push your new site all you
have to do is copy all of the files in the new folder to the root and remove
your old ones first. This does create a down time of several minutes for as
long as you are removing and uploading your new site. I usually do it some
time at night when traffic is low.