Common Craft Blog
My Favorite Spam Comment
By leelefever on April 14, 2007 - 8:38pm
The last few days here at Common Craft headquarters have been a mix of elation and dismay. We've been working hard on the next version of our website. Now, this isn't just a design change - it involves a completely new platform, new host and new design. I had high hopes of a smooth transition, but those hopes were dashed in the last couple of days by DNS server geekery.
I spent most of yesterday not really knowing if the site was actually on the Internet or not. In fact, I went to bed last night being able to see the site on my computer, but not Sachi's. I IM'd friends to test and did DNS Reports and mostly found more reasons to be confused. Not fun.
Ultimately, I had no confidence that the site was completely up and open to the Internets at large. That was until today. I checked, for the first time ever, my shiny new Akismet spam page. There it was, all the proof I needed that the new Common Craft was online - a comment spam for Viagra from my new anonymous friend, the new site's first one. If there was ever proof that the new site is up and finable on the web, this was it!
[Updated] My hopes have been dashed again - more errors! Here's word for the wise: switching DNS is a pain and if you have to do it, start on Monday so that the people who can help are actually at work.Â
Mark this day - this is the last time you will ever, ever, hear me laud anything that resembles spam. Just this once, spam was my friend - thanks anonymous!
By the way, if you're reading in RSS, come check out the new site - we're still working out some of the kinks and would love to know what you see.
Your new site
Hi Lee and Sachi
I loved your TwinF site - found it a great inspiration in planning our big RTW next year and hope to do something similar - in fact I'm working on a concept for our blog now in preparation :o)
I too work in the web field in New Zealand, and am constantly evangelising to my "lay" colleagues about the whole concept of community and the power of the web. So I find your thinking and blog comments extremely useful in my quest!
Anyway I like the look of your new site, but it seems your navigation hyperlinks are still a bit screwy? Within the site they seem to be linking to places that are different to their labels.
Keep up the great work and good luck with your new site :o)
Hi Kylie!
Thanks a bunch for the kind words - and for our first real comment since the migration. Yay!
At first I didn't notice, but now I see what you're talking about with the navigation links. When you go to a category page, the links from that point get screwy. I've got someone looking at it now. Thanks a bunch for pointing it out.
The blocks at the bottom and the side, like "recent comments" are not updating correctly at the moment either. Here's to live testing!