![]() ![]() I think it's akin to going into business without a good idea of what sort of insurance you may need, and how to go about getting it. This is a real problem for small businesses in the digital age. Muzzleloading American Longrifles Back Creek Gun Shop Townsends Crazy Crow Trading Post Log Cabin Shop Powder Inc. And what it will cost them to get them fixed. So I don't know what's going on at Log Cabin Shop, but they have my sympathy - because I can guess what problems they've been facing. ![]() I just looked at it again tonight (about five years after I left), and it's pretty much a mess - almost certainly because it ultimately got passed to someone else who decided it was "too complicated" to work with as it was, changed the underlying technology to make it "simpler," and broke significant parts of it. I've been in the position of having created a complete site for a community organization and then turned it over to someone else (with the required skills) a couple of years later. And since people who aren't professional software or application developers don't know to follow the practices necessary to recover from a blunder and "go back" to something that works, they can get hopelessly stuck with no way out because they can't "back up" to what used to work. And it's real easy (for the relatively untrained) to make a simple blunder that can then ripple problems throughout the site. Muzzleloader Builders Supply The Possible Shop RMC Muzzleloading American Longrifles Back Creek Gun Shop Townsends Crazy Crow Trading Post Log Cabin Shop Powder. ![]() Doing what may appear to users as "simple" changes involving additions and deletions requires more experience and skill (even when using a tool designed for that) than just typing text on a page or dragging and dropping an image. Often only one person at a small company has that knowledge and skill (and likely is hanging on by the skin of their teeth), or it's outsourced to some other company (which in the current environment may be facing similar skill and staffing problems). The problem with small (or even "medium" size) companies is that either you need someone with the technical know-how to update web pages (either at the raw code level or by using whatever tool/framework was used to create the site), or you need to pay someone (or another small company) to do that. Click to expand.Yes, but who would do that? ![]()
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