Is it possible to build a new site and replace it

[ClaireH-184886]

Hi i have a site that i want to re build because it has moved away from what i wanted it to do and deleted a lot of the site and due to this has caused a lot of errors.

My site is built in the old joomla and i want to build a brand new site in the new version.

My site in2town.co.uk which is a lifestyle magazine runs very slowly and what i want to do because it has a lot of problems under the google webmaster control panel, is to rebuild the site and turn it back into the site it should be instead of trying to make it into so many different things.

The problem i have is, i have thousands and thousands of great links going to the site and i am worried about losing these links.

It would take me about a day to turn it into the site it should be and improve it. My hosting company have said that i can put it under a sub domain the new site and then when i have built it, they can then move it under the correct name. But what i am worried about is, the site is very slow at the moment, and i am worried that by doing this that it would not solve the problem of making it faster even though i have a dedicated server.

I want the site to be brand new with no errors and i am worried by doing this that the site will run slowly because i am still working off the old script.

I have tried migrating the older version into the new joomla but it could not be done and caused problems so this could be my only other option.

Any advice would be great

[PeterAlexLeigh]

Nice keyword drop there

Are you looking to completely re launch the site or will there be a lot of similarities between the two? If the new one has a lot of existing content, then google will probably notice that you have just updated your site.

[ClaireH-184886]

i want to take it back to the way i first started with it instead of moving away from what i wanted. So i would like to include a lot of the same content, but what i am worried about is losing all the links. My hosting company have put a new installation of joomla in a new subdomain and then this will be put under www.in2town.co.uk and then i am trying to learn how to keep the old links for the new site