It may seem strange to position launching a new website: http://www.carolynstrauss.com/ as "giving birth" but when I thought about it, here were some similarities that showed up. First, we (my support team) began discussing creating a new site about a year ago. Next, we "conceived" the template, style and concept about 9 months ago.
The first three months gave me morning sickness, each time I sat at the computer to envision this site, what pages it needed, what styles it should have, what I keep from the old one, how do we upload stuff... (Hey, have I mentioned that one should always know her/ his strengths and weaknesses, and a huge weakness of mine... technology!) so I would feel sick until I figured out a piece.
Then it was about 3 months of just plugging away, not obsessing, just working on it piece by piece. And seeing tiny changes every day.
Then the final and past 3 months I got REALLY uncomfortable. I had to COMMIT to this design, which buttons to keep and which to lose, which quotes and which pictures go where, who's testimonials go on which page, do I even include this blog in the site, and how do we do that? ... on and on. My temper even got short with my "team" as I wanted something and I wanted it "now"....
Until last night, at 10:05 p.m. on July 15th. After the months of agony and joy and fear and excitement.... there it was. Live. On line for the world to see.
OK, so maybe I'm being a little dramatic, maybe I'm overstating things a bit, but I'm excited to see how this new website grows in the world, and changes with time, and has an effect on those who visit. And to that end, I say "Welcome".
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