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   * Keep your site up to date with every release. When allowing multiple versions to pass between updates, the more versions are released, the more changes you will have to make at once.  It's generally much easier to apply smaller changes more often than, say, trying to apply changes added over an entire year, from 2-3 new feature releases or more, all at once. <   * Keep your site up to date with every release. When allowing multiple versions to pass between updates, the more versions are released, the more changes you will have to make at once.  It's generally much easier to apply smaller changes more often than, say, trying to apply changes added over an entire year, from 2-3 new feature releases or more, all at once. <
   * Apply changes to a test site first. That way, you can make any required design changes on the test site so that your "live" site experiences very little down time. <   * Apply changes to a test site first. That way, you can make any required design changes on the test site so that your "live" site experiences very little down time. <
 +  * Note that this isn't something you will be needing every other update.  Historically, if you look at the changelogs and release notes, we tend to make "major" design changes about once every 2 years or so.  The recent 7.1 re-design then 7.3 re-design is the exception to this, as 7.1 was done for "cosmetic" reasons (to give the software a "face lift"), while the re-design in 7.3 was done in order to change to use RWD, to make the software design more mobile friendly.  We will try to keep the previous trend in place, a design update hopefully no more than once every other year. <
  
 ===== Responsive Web Design VS Separate Mobile Design ===== ===== Responsive Web Design VS Separate Mobile Design =====
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