I have spent the last two months trying to get my website live.Every day I am reminded more and more of the story of a guy who is lonely and decides he needs company. He goes out and buys him self a parrot, he asks the shop keeper if the parrot can talk, after being assured the parrot can talk, he buys the cage and the parrot.The next day he returns to the shop, complaining the parrot hasn’t spoken.
The owner of the shop asks him if he bought a little ladder for the parrot to climb up and down. “Everybody knows a parrot needs a ladder to climb before it can talk.”
The next day the same story parrot still isn’t talking.
“Have you got a mirror?”
“A mirror?”
“Yes everybody knows you need a mirror, the parrot climbs up the ladder looks in the mirror and talks.”
Next day same result a still silent parrot.
This time some parrot toys gets palmed off on the guy.
This ritual carries on for over a week, the guy leaving with extra paraphernalia, until one day he walks in with a dead parrot.
The shop keeper asks him “Did he talk”
“Yes.”
“What did he say?”
“Why didn’t you buy me bird seed!”
Everybody knows you need your own domain.
I’ve got my own domain.
You don’t need flash, just a simple design, easy to navigate pages. No fancy fonts.
Straight forward content.
Months of designing and planning pretty much useless if nobody can view or read it.
Now I am told I need a lot of other geek paraphernalia. I still wont be able to upload anything myself at three in the morning, which is when I get up to do it.
Now the question is do I get the extras like the guy with the parrot and still land up with a dead website down the road, or wait out the short term contract and transfer.
I mentioned to someone the other day, one of the buttons on their site wasn’t working.
“Yes we know, we have been trying for months to get it fixed, we are waiting for contract to expire then we will be transferring.” The other party asked me in closing, “Would you by any chance know of a good company we can go to?”
Maybe after sales service has somewhere along the line has fallen victim to the expression.
“How Retro!” spoken with derision.
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Hi there. Your entry really spoke to me. I have the same problem and sometimes i just think like is it worth it!
Comment by Andre 06.30.08 @ 11:36 amFor non geeks all we can is keep on keeping on,sooner or later we will learn enough, as to is it worth it? The alternative isnt an option.
Comment by bushman 06.30.08 @ 11:53 am