about wordpress sites

Lesson I've just learned: for a Wordpress site, it's necessary to write into your contract that updates are NOT covered. That is, the client may update the Wordpress system files (like WP prompts you to do) and bork the site because it breaks some customization. They need to know in that situation, it's on them and they pay extra to get anything fixed. Coworker who builds Drupal sites says he always builds monthly maintenance fees in to take care of this. You want CMS? you pay to have it kept up. Helps them remember exactly how much it's worth having to not pay someone everytime they want to change a line of text on the about page.

It's 1961. Paul Newman is in a bus station. Everyone wears a suit, all the time. You can go into a diner, sit down and have a cuppa black coffee, a cigarette and a donut and none of it's bad for you. You can go into a bar at eight a.m. and it's clean, no cardboard cutouts of bimbos, no televisions and nobody obsessively pecking at a touchscreen video game. You can buy a handgun in a hardware store with no questions asked. Strippers frequently are backed up by live bands. Telephones have rotary dials and there is no such thing as the internet. *sigh*

Overheard@An Event Apart

"God, I wish IE6 would just die a natural death so we could all move on with our lives." Seconded, though I don't personally care if it's a natural death or a rooftop sniper or what. Maybe we should try and introduce it to a terrible succubus who'll quietly switch its meds after convincing it to buy a lot of life insurance.

"Redesigns are a bad idea. Nobody wants a redesign but the site owners."

An Event Apart Quotes

If you're an uber-nerd, these should be hilarious. Otherwise, they will make no sense.

"But it doesn't work in IE. Not that I care."

"Of course, if I have a layout problem, the first place I'm going to look is the TCP/IP stack"

exit hole

IMG_7870, originally uploaded by Spinetree.org.

Started painting again. And I sure do.

Adios

Adios, originally uploaded by Generik11.

Right. Freakin. On.