‘Under Construction’ and ‘Taking a break’…
- 19 Dec 06, 12:02 PM
Two phrases that send a shudder down my peripherals and leaves me screaming and shouting at my computer and anyone who just happens to be passing the house.
Under construction
What this actually means is that someone has gone to all the trouble of getting a domain name and web space and have managed to get on to some search engines, but haven’t actually found the time to write anything for the website.
In the early days of the web such a phrase was usually accompanied by a picture of either a man at work or some flashing yellow and black construction sign.
Some ‘Under Construction’ pages had had a lot of work put in to them. But no matter how carefully crafted these pages are/were, they still fail to dispel my total annoyance at wasting my time as well as quashing my excitement when I think that Google has actually found a website about knitting projects for my pet budgie only to discover that all the information I need hasn’t been written yet.
Did you know that there are out there trying to stamp out the Under Construction absurdity? I’ll sign any petition to stop this practice.
Under Construction tends not to be such a big issue on blogs as most of the freeware ones available are so easy to use it takes no time at all to get a couple of entries posted, so in the time it takes to put up an ‘Under Construction’ sign you can post several entries.
No, the scourge of the blog is TABS - Taking A Break Syndrome.
All year long people sit and craft (some irony there) their postings on their blog. Then along comes a holiday season and they feel as though they need to excommunicate their readers and stop posting.
Newspapers and magazines pull out all the stops at holiday time to give their readers bumper editions with extra features. So why do bloggers feel the need to stop blogging? I have a theory.
Most bloggers blog from work. I don’t have any statistics to back this up, but think about it, why else would you not be able to blog at holiday time (apart from being away) unless your access to a computer and some spare time had gone?
So I’m going to continue to write – but not on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Manchester Blog – as I’m sure my many, many readers to my would be distraught and feel withdrawal symptoms if I took a break.
Actually I’m working on a website now that looks at the whole issue of working and blogging. Sadly it’s still under construction and is likely to be for some time yet as I’m having difficulty finding just the right image of a guy leaning on a spade reading something on his laptop.
The Manchester blog will be back on January 2nd with tips on how to overcome the feeling that you’ve not blogged for two whole weeks and you’ve actually found something to do with your time.
Happy holidays!
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Ironically, the link to the no 'under construction' signs you point to, isn't working right now.
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Ironically, the link to the no 'under construction' signs you point to, isn't working right now. Evenutually, you get an error 500, and Internet Explorer 7 says:
"Most likely causes:
The website is under maintenance."
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Spooky. It was there this morning. Perhaps they finished it, didn't like it and took it down again!
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In addition to the 'Under Construction' nuisance, what I also hate is when you're looking for something, find it in cache, and it turns out that even the cached version is outdated. Or - you find it, keep the link, follow it a few weeks later, and the file is no longer available. That is really, really awful. But - pa-pa-pa-pam!!! - I think I'll be blogging this Christmas, if only because it's the first Christmas when I'm on the blog, so got to make something out of it.
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Hah. I took a fortnight's break from blogging over christmas, for 2 reasons: a) I wasn't in Manchester, and the blog (www.markmuldoon.blogspot.com)is supposed to centre around Manchester life, and b) back home in Nottingham we don't have internet access. Which makes blogging somewhat difficult of course.
But yes, quite similar to the blogging-from-work suspicion, it's true.
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