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Is Your Web Site an Orphan?
We were chatting to the owner of a local restaurant one evening. We’re friendly enough and run businesses in the same neighbourhood, so he has a sense of the nature of our work. He was bemoaning the fact that while he’s pleased with the look of his web site, some of the information is no longer valid, his menu needs updating, and his hours change now based on the season. His problem is that he can’t track down the web designer or the web master.
That web site is an orphan. It’s floating out there in cyberspace invalid, unattended, and, worse yet, inaccessible.
We build web sites through Moss Media Lab and it is a standard practice of ours to upload the web site’s project folder with all its metadata tucked inside whether we host it through Dot Monster.ca or whether it’s hosted elsewhere. At least we assumed it was standard practice.
After that conversation though, I started asking other people – friends and business associates – if they have access to their web site’s project file and more often than not, I would get blank stares. They simply didn’t know.
So.
Before it’s too late and while you know how to contact your web designer or your web master, ask them this question. Are all of my project files, including the design and other metadata, on the server with our web site? You may even, as a belt and suspenders precaution, ask for a copy of that folder to be sent to you as well for safekeeping.
That way, no matter the changes you make in your business, or in your relationship with your web master or designer, you have the blueprints. Because, not only is it frustrating to know your site is not current, and be helpless to change it, it can require a costly fix. Remember the web site is yours and there‘s no need for it to ever become orphaned.
That web site is an orphan. It’s floating out there in cyberspace invalid, unattended, and, worse yet, inaccessible.
We build web sites through Moss Media Lab and it is a standard practice of ours to upload the web site’s project folder with all its metadata tucked inside whether we host it through Dot Monster.ca or whether it’s hosted elsewhere. At least we assumed it was standard practice.
After that conversation though, I started asking other people – friends and business associates – if they have access to their web site’s project file and more often than not, I would get blank stares. They simply didn’t know.
So.
Before it’s too late and while you know how to contact your web designer or your web master, ask them this question. Are all of my project files, including the design and other metadata, on the server with our web site? You may even, as a belt and suspenders precaution, ask for a copy of that folder to be sent to you as well for safekeeping.
That way, no matter the changes you make in your business, or in your relationship with your web master or designer, you have the blueprints. Because, not only is it frustrating to know your site is not current, and be helpless to change it, it can require a costly fix. Remember the web site is yours and there‘s no need for it to ever become orphaned.
10th June 2009
In December 07, I had the opportunity to test drive Sony’s new XDcam EX. This is the first minicam I’ve seen whose 24P output actually makes a significant and positive impact on the recorded image. The fact that it uses Sony’s CineAlta technology with a true 24P (23.98fps), 3 chip, 1/2 inch CCD block has a great deal to do with the incredibly film like images the camera produces. Using Sony’s new PC standard SxS static memory storage cards rather than tape makes media transfer fast and easy. With a price point hovering around $8,000.00 this HD minicam is a winner in my books.
5th January 2008
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