Hidecrafter Website Up and Running

[Rawhide]

I appreciate folks needing to get their websites up and running, but they shouldn't go live until all the the problems are fleshed out.

I wouldn't let my site go live (dogs) until I had about 5 friends just get in there and try to make it fail. They succeeded many times, but at the end of 2 or 3 months, it went live and hasn't had a problem in 5 years. Honest.

I'd recommend they take the site down and let the "bad press" die down. As we can see, they may be losing current and future customers with a faulty site.

Spence I agree with you here, however, the fact is one side isn't happy that there is no website.."When will the website be up? why don't you update your website? Can't you get your website up quicker?.

Then once it's rushed to satisfy that group and it isn't perfect, then you'll get "Why can't I order from your website? I can't see any pictures. By the way when is the catalog coming? I mean sheesh, they're getting it from all sides. I understand the frustration, but you can't please everybody everytime...I know it sounds like I work for them or have a vested interest, but I don't, I just think they have a place in the leather business and hope to see them survive.

[Vikti]

I appreciate folks needing to get their websites up and running, but they shouldn't go live until all the the problems are fleshed out.

I wouldn't let my site go live (dogs) until I had about 5 friends just get in there and try to make it fail. They succeeded many times, but at the end of 2 or 3 months, it went live and hasn't had a problem in 5 years. Honest.

I'd recommend they take the site down and let the "bad press" die down. As we can see, they may be losing current and future customers with a faulty site.

Back when I was in college I was assigned to a group trying to create an interactive website and I can say that it isn't that easy to do what they're trying to do. When my test site went online and a closed (college campus) network it still went down due to some bug that didn't show up until it went "live". Depending on what you have on the site (java, javascript, etc.) there are some things that you won't know about until it is released from a test computer/network. Something that works good on Internet Explorer may not work so well on Opera or Firefox and vice versa. The internet has more variables than a test server.

Eric told me some thing last weekend similar to what Marlon mentioned, $2.00 sewing machines, $.50 lizard skins, not adding tax when needed, adding taxes when not needed. Most of this seems to be database problems. It could be something as simple as a period instead of a comma or it could be something worse. It just takes time to go through the code and fix it and the company that they're using has more than one client to worry about.