Or what I learned this last weekend?
[style=floatpicleft>Apparently.
As one small business supporting another small business, I understand. I finally broke down and called tech support Saturday morning, “they’re working in it,” was the recorded message.
I wandered up to the Pecan Street festival and had some “mystery meat on stick, probably fried, maybe baked, who knows?” kind of food. I pointedly ignored the problem.
Sunday morning, I tried a quick fix after I discovered that a half-dozen sites that I manage, or have access to, or whatever, on the same server, were all running just fine, albeit, without the interactive features I tend to employ. A simple script to echo the date and time could knock a page off-line, and with my site? The four most heavily trafficked pages, entry pages, all have a few bits and pieces of code that require interaction.
Date, time, content retrieval, and the rotating graphics, all of them are basically “moving parts” and the moving parts & pieces weren’t moving. Hence the whole thing was offline.
What I learned:
I tend to see the web page as a fairly static, text-based medium. But even employing a few moving parts, my page is far more active than I thought. It’s grown by accretion and influence rather than in a direct, lineal manner. But the highest traffic hits the most interactive of the pages. The more it wiggles, the more folks hit it. Wonder if that’s like fish, too?
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