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Major Update to Real Estate Page
By klard | September 16, 2006
Have you ever taken on a task and when you got deep into it asked yourself “what was I thinking?” I recently took on the task of updating the Tampa Real Estate website and ran into that question. It started out as a server upgrade….we purchased a new web server from Dell for the site with the idea of moving some of the other sites we manage to the old server. Then the thought was, hey we shoud do a layout, css, and color upgrade while we are at it….slowly it built….then we decided we should validate the css and html through the w3c site for at least the major design elements since there are something like 60,000 pages total on the site. Wow, I had no idea just how bad my code was 2 years ago….suffice it to say that I have learned a ton in the last 2 years about developing, particularly with php.
So we go through that whole process….fix validate…fix validate..etc. Once we get all that done we bring the site live and notice that our error log is 66 meg in just a day….ouch. The process begins anew., the errors are primarily in using literals in php……so we go through the headache of fixing most of those errors. BTW I research everything, and for those people who advocate turning off notify in your php.ini instead of tracking down the errors and correcting them…..I say bleh to you.
I am happy to say that after 2 solid weeks of work I am about 50% finished fixing all of the ugliness I created. I read recently that some google developer said that no matter how good their algorithm gets they cannot account for people’s incompetence when developing sites……now I know what he meant.
Good luck and hopefully better coding.
Topics: PHP, Web Design |
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