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susandennisI just finished an egg salad sandwich with bacon on it. It was delicious.
I have worked on a lot of websites in my long life and when building a new one or retrofitting an old one, they all use the same song book.
1. Before you start: make all the pages like this
2. After you've finished about 20%: We've changed our minds - let's do them all like this
3. After you've finished about 50%: Oh crap, we forgot this - it has to go on all pages
4. After you've finished about 75%: Oh fuck, we didn't see this before and now we need to fix it on all pages
Tracking step one is easy. Tracking steps 3-4 getting increasingly more difficult. How many of the pages were redone to fix the #2 issue? how about the #3 issue? Where are they in the process? being built? in QA? Are they finished and we need to get them back for redo in #4? And this round is for 750+ pages. (Phase II is for 1,400 pages but I figure at this rate we'll never get Phase I finished in my lifetime so I'm not worrying about Phase II.)
Today, we hit #4 and I'm not even sure there won't be a 5. It always happens. Doesn't matter how much planning goes in - crap comes out. It's the way of the internets...
One of the things I like best about my job - well, two of them, actually... 1. The decisions aren't mine - I didn't make the right ones, I didn't make the wrong ones. You tell us what you want done and by wen and we'll tell you if it's possible. If you want us to redo the whole freakin' thing, fine by me because my #2 most liked thing is that I get paid by the hour.
So... probably now that lunch is over, I'd better get back to it.
I have worked on a lot of websites in my long life and when building a new one or retrofitting an old one, they all use the same song book.
1. Before you start: make all the pages like this
2. After you've finished about 20%: We've changed our minds - let's do them all like this
3. After you've finished about 50%: Oh crap, we forgot this - it has to go on all pages
4. After you've finished about 75%: Oh fuck, we didn't see this before and now we need to fix it on all pages
Tracking step one is easy. Tracking steps 3-4 getting increasingly more difficult. How many of the pages were redone to fix the #2 issue? how about the #3 issue? Where are they in the process? being built? in QA? Are they finished and we need to get them back for redo in #4? And this round is for 750+ pages. (Phase II is for 1,400 pages but I figure at this rate we'll never get Phase I finished in my lifetime so I'm not worrying about Phase II.)
Today, we hit #4 and I'm not even sure there won't be a 5. It always happens. Doesn't matter how much planning goes in - crap comes out. It's the way of the internets...
One of the things I like best about my job - well, two of them, actually... 1. The decisions aren't mine - I didn't make the right ones, I didn't make the wrong ones. You tell us what you want done and by wen and we'll tell you if it's possible. If you want us to redo the whole freakin' thing, fine by me because my #2 most liked thing is that I get paid by the hour.
So... probably now that lunch is over, I'd better get back to it.
