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What NOT to do with your new website

September 8, 2016 by Shelley Stephen

 

So here I am with a brand new website, thinking I’m a knowledgeable user and all. I’m looking at this and fiddling with that, and oh, look! I see a plugin that was left from my previous website.

“Oh,” I say to myself, “I can deactivate that one. I don’t need it.” (cue ominous music foreshadowing doom….)

So I mess with a few other things and decide to look at my website. OMG!!!!! (cue music of crashing buildings or cars or something else noisy)

All I see is CODE everywhere! Crap! What did I do!?! What did I touch?!? Did I ruin my brand new website!?!

Send completely panicked email to developers with a subject of HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Decide to try it in another browser…look more closely…oh…wait…I know those tags. They’re from that plug in I have. Uh, the one I deactivated. Oops…..

Send apologetic retraction to developers. Feel really, really stupid…. Take a deep breath. And again.

Lessons Learned

In the hopes you learn from my mistakes:

  • Know what you are doing before you touch something on your website. If you don’t know if it’s safe to touch, ASK your developer first! And make sure you have a back up of your site – please, please, please!!!!
  • If it’s an experiment, or really any kind of change, TEST IT before you do 10 other things. Then you can change it back before you lose a bunch of work. (and I really should know this having worked in IT for 25 years)
  • Make sure it really is a problem before you go shooting off notes (again, I really should know better having been the recipient of such notes)
  • Recognize that I am not perfect, that I forget things I should know better than, and that it’s okay to be that way.  It’s part of being human.

Now, back to my regularly scheduled day.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: VO, VOICEOVER, WEB DEVELOPMENT, WEBSITE

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