Autopendium goes live. Quietly.
OK. That’s it’s. The site is no longer restricted to approved testers. A couple of days of tweaking, most to sort out Internet Explorer’s idiosyncrasies (don’t start me off), and come to some sort of compromise between how the various web browsers display things, and we’re done. Autopendium :: stuff about old cars is live.
Well, I say done. Honestly, there’s a bucketload of annoying little things, mostly to do with design that I’d like to tweak, but I don’t think any of them are going to significantly impact on the usability of the site, and a deadline’s a deadline.
The good thing is, unlike a magazine deadline (see When to launch), you can at least continue to tweak and improve things after you’ve gone to press, so to speak.
To begin with, I’m expecting things to be pretty quiet. I’m not planning on doing a lot of marketing (in fact pretty much none at all), just tell a few mates, and perhaps suggest they do the same. Somehow it doesn’t really seem in the old car spirit to be shouting about it.
And then hopefully a few at a time will find it useful, and then tell their mates. And so it goes. Perhaps.
