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august1991

02/25/10 10:33 AM

#15301 RE: ryanplaya #15300

Nice post RYAN....
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Gicapster

02/25/10 10:47 AM

#15305 RE: ryanplaya #15300

Okay, let me jump in here for a second. They "are working on the back-end" they say: A back-end that's already provided by the commercial script they're using (I assume, given the template used and the Magento demo running on their website). Honestly, the script comes with a full-featured back-end! They don't have to reinvent the wheel here... they just have to put some rims on it, and from the looks of their web development skills shown to us so far that could be a real problem for them... I actually wouldn't be surprised if they didn't hire a web developer for this at all, but told some random guy at the office who knows a bit of MS Frontpage from back in '95 to take care of this thing. That's of course an exaggeration, but I'm just saying...
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Signals42

02/25/10 10:57 AM

#15312 RE: ryanplaya #15300

There is no reason to roll out a couple of pages of the web site before the "back-end" is working. It just doesn't make sense. But, I think I have a good guess as to what is going on.

If you look, half of the page is static image. (Like the search box and language selector.) This is not a half-finished web site, it's still a mock-up. If it were a partially finished web site, the search box would be a text entry box, or at least a real element on the page, not just part of the logo graphic. Someone had to construct this page based on pictures of the work-in-progress web site.

What I think is happening is that they wanted to get a form online for potential distributors to sign up. It probably doesn't tie in to a back-end system yet, but will provide the submitted info to someone in the company who can then follow-up the old fashioned way: with a telephone. They also took the opportunity to update the mock-up website to give their investors a little preview of what's coming.

I just don't believe what we saw last night was on-going development to the real production web portal. IT departments (and web development companies) just don't work that way. The work-in-progress is on a development or testing server somewhere that we don't see, and will be deployed to the production server in one shot when it is ready.

Just my $0.02.