{"id":134,"date":"2008-12-08T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2008-12-08T14:01:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T18:01:26","slug":"the-joy-of-having-a-site-go-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/the-joy-of-having-a-site-go-live\/","title":{"rendered":"The joy of having a site go live."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a 12 hour debug session last Friday, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailstop.com\/\">new site I&#8217;ve been working on<\/a> finally went live.<\/p>\n<p>Working in-house on web projects mostly means I am fixing sites that are already online. Although I often build entirely new sections and features for the site, I rarely get the satisfaction of launching an entirely new site.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d almost forgotten how it felt.<\/p>\n<p>Especially considering the short amount of time this site took to get going (compared to my last site which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel.html\">took a year and a half<\/a>). Although, I have my coworker to thank for that as he took the lead on the more difficult aspects of this new site.<\/p>\n<p>Ecom sites aren&#8217;t the coolest projects to work on, but this one was pretty fun, particularly the image zoom feature for individual products. For example, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trailstop.com\/eagle-scout-nickel.html\">Eagle Scout coin<\/a>. You can still get the traditional &#8220;show larger image&#8221; experience by clicking the thumbnails, but if you simply mouse over the main product image you are treated to a much smoother experience.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I could have made this post unless the site had already made a sale so I wasn&#8217;t expecting to have the chance until later this week. However, thanks to the miracle of Adwords I had an ad running in about five minutes on Friday night and arrived to work this morning to see the first sale had already been made and shipped.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good day. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 12 hour debug session last Friday, a new site I&#8217;ve been working on finally went live. Working in-house on web projects mostly means I am fixing sites that are already online. Although I often build entirely new sections and features for the site, I rarely get the satisfaction of launching an entirely new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}