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Dec 04, 2009

“Umm, Is Your Site Broken?”

I’ve been thinking about redoing Bitmanic for nearly a year now. But up until a couple weeks ago, I hadn’t done a damn thing about it.  I had all sorts of worthwhile ideas and concepts, and had even wireframed and sketched everything out.  “It will be perfect!,” I thought.  But when the hell was it going to get done?!

Jump to two weeks ago.  I was sick of waiting.  I couldn’t keep pushing it off, so I pulled the plug and forced myself to work on a new iteration.  Some would call this sloppy or unprofessional, and maybe it is.  But it worked.  Two days later, I had ExpressionEngine installed, five weblogs configured, and a styled homepage.  Since the previous version of Bitmanic was a static one-page site, I had already achieved more in two days than I had in a year.

So what am I trying to say here?  I guess I’m trying to say that sometimes it’s okay to not plan everything out. Shoot from the hip.  Get dirty.  Don’t know the answers.  Just do.

With that said, I still have broken links and minor flaws all over the place.  Does that make me happy?  Of course not.  But no matter how you slice it, what I’ve got now is far better than what I had.  And these glaring problems will only ensure that this site stays in the front of mind and gets the attention it deserves. 

Posted by Ray Brown on 12/04 at 09:33 PM
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Posted by Sophie20   on  02/22/10   at  09:34 AM

Let’s face it.  All too often, 1z0-007 dumps I end up working on living code; I work really hard and finally deploy a site, but it’s never truly done.  And when I’m working in a live server environment (and even when I’m not), I tend to make tons of incremental edits with lots of saves in between.  Why?  Well, because no matter how careful I am, it’s inevitable that these big sausage fingers will end up 1Y0-A14  hitting the “=” key one too many times and make whole sections of a website disappear.But with the constant slew of saving and tweaking comes the annoying fact that each page refresh pings your client’s analytic tracking code.  No, it’s not that big of a deal. But if you’re like me, it can be annoying — especially since it’s not uncommon to have loaded a hundred pages or more during the period of development.  It skews data and is just plain stinky.
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