Diary of a Website: Waiting

Myra of GraysLland Acres is in one of the more difficult stages of her website's creation.

She's waiting.

She sent her information and photos in, the logo and the content have been approved and sent off to the designer, and now it's just suspense till the design concepts are ready for approval. Then, of course, there's more suspense while the site is built. After that, there's launch, always exciting, and further suspense waiting for the traffic and rankings to rise or settle or stabilize.

This isn't difficult for those of us who are working on it, because -- well, we're working on it, aren't we? There's no suspense for us.

For the client, it can be rough. One client said it's like becoming a father -- your wife is doing all the work, but the father is left to pace around and wait, so time stretches out. Shan says, "Fortunately clients have plenty of other things to do while we are doing stuff for them." For Myra, these things include goats, kids, and llamas, so we figure she's still having fun in spite of the suspense.