A straw poll for people who look after websites...

[lostcarpark]

Lots of poeple look after different types of websites, whether it's a personal site hosted on something like MySpace, right up to a a corporate e-commerce site clustered across hundreds of servers.

If you find, or have ever found yourself in such a position, I'd like to know what's the one thing about the experience that ticks/ticked you off the most. Could you post a tiny bit about the site in question (no need to identify it unless you want to), your role, how the site is/was maintained, and either the thing that you found really annoying, or something you thought that would have made your life a lot easier.

This sort of ties into something I'm working on. I'm not promising I'll be able to make your life easier, but I'm not saying I won't...

Comments

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Ooh.... This comment box is too narrow. I'm going to have to have a serious think, and come back to this.

But I've just spent two days in a meeting (well, we did have three very nice meals out), so I'm off to the pub for now?

[akicif.livejournal.com]

THinking about this, it's maybe time for a friends-locked post going through my CV, plus the places I don't put on it, listing what wasn't so good.

Only thing is, if I include a link to my present day job, it'll show up in the referrer logs (they know about my moribund blog, but not the LJ)

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Well, you could just give the name/site name, but not make it a clickable link, so people have to type it into the address bar, breaking the referrer link.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

That doesn't work. The referrer is often just picked up as being the last page the user was on. If I'm on your site and type in some random address the new site will know where I was last. You'd have to go to a different site in between, or paste it into a different browser window or something.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Oops. I never realised that. I must look at my referrer logs more closely.