Well okay, so maybe there’s a need to freak out. I head into the office early again this morning and I’ve received practically 4 e-mails from my boss in just the last two hours…all relating to the same dreadful thing: the website redesign. I had just sent out the IP address for the site on a development server Monday afternoon so now my boss has had some time to review the site and when I saw one of her e-mails, I started to worry. It really hit the fan when I received an e-mail with the subject line: Come see me as soon as you get in with a red exclamation point stressing importance. So what did I do? What do you think? I practically threw off my coat and chucked the scarf I was wearing and ran into her office. Hell, I was basically stressing out because I thought I would be reamed for how the site appeared.
Although I’m not sure if I could be entirely to blame because it’s not as if I’ve seen the website in development before Monday. But anyways, that kinda sullied my mood for the day as I started to bug about all the crap that I had to do. Although it’s not helping me that the other folks in various departments are asking me for crap practically the last minute and expect me to bend over backwards. What’s up with that?
So today is the day when content begins to be loaded onto the site. I ran a brief inventory of what site has been preloaded onto the site, but it’s not looking all that promising. Oh, and there’s a pesky lil’ matter of finding images for the site. Crap…this is really starting to piss me off. The CMS is a little clunky at first and takes a little getting used to, but I think I’m making progress. I’d better get going on this because there’s only a week left!
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So we’re finally down to the last week and a half until the anticipated launch of a redesigned website. Can you stand it? I certainly can’t…it’s finally almost done. The only problem is that we’ve only been given access to the site as of today and not everything is complete. It seems that we’re doing this a little ass backwards or even developing while we’re designing. The team that I’m working with is pretty skilled and I’m sure that we’ll get things done, but there’s A LOT of things to do still. I hope that it’ll happen.
As usual we had our Monday start-of-week meeting where we pretty much laid out all the stuff that’s outstanding for the upcoming week. Go figure that at the beginning of the week I had to endure putting out multiple “fires”. During the past weekend, I’ve been worrying on whether our servers would be set up in time since they practically had been working on the damn things for the past couple of weeks…and e-mails had been traded back and forth between our hosting providers and our development team. I just want the damn thing to work already! So after that, I had to worry even more about the president of our web agency interject himself in our conversations after nearly 7-8 months and perhaps delay our intended launch. Under no circumstances, short of an act of God, was a delay going to be acceptable…we had proceeded pretty quickly and rapidly so this bump in the road was not a welcome thing.
So starting the week has left me pretty worked up and stressed. I’m sure that the week will hopefully improve as we edge closer to launch.
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I don’t know why I’m so stressed…I know that I have this work that’s being done, but why am I so stressed about work that someone else is doing? Perhaps it’s because I’m overseeing this work that I’m worried about it? Maybe it’s that I think that there should be something I’m doing, but I can’t remember for the life of me what it is. It’s probably a guilt trip for me having some fun this weekend while the developers and designers are busting their butts getting shtuff done. This ain’t cool…
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