Some of the problems in Web design come from seemingly minor issues. They don't result in "horror" stories, per se, but they can be tedious or cause bigger problems in the long run. Like the problems this developer experienced:
- Uploaded an update to a large directory, completely forgetting that one must always triple-check -which- directory gets the update; had a hellish 3 days finding an old index.html and rebuilding it to what it was before I wiped it, and then picking out the files that should've gone elsewhere.
- It works off-line, but not on-line. Why? More head-banging on concrete walls; whined at a programmer friend who said, "You -do- remember that the server is case-sensitive, right?" Oy. No.
- Not mine... Why, oh, why won't the images display? They are uploaded, the case is correct, and they are called correctly. I take a look, and realise that she hadn't noticed the difference between - and _ in the file names. {sigh...}
At least the programmer friend didn't say it in as snarky a voice as possible. I guess he saw the blood on the wall.
