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Property Search Group Website
We were asked to get a site up and running in a hurry for PSG, as the deadline for HIPS was rapidly approaching.
Little did either of us know at the time what hurdles were to be thrown in our way and how the 1st June dealine would be pulled from under us just as we went live!
The site is now live - take a look at PSG’s Homebuyers Information Pack Site. We’ll just have to change the counter to 1st of August.
The site owner, Chandra Sharma, wanted to use a domain name he’d bought several years ago, homebyersearches.co.uk. After considerable effort trying to convince the ISP holding the domain that he was the owner, we thought we’d be ready to transfer the domain over to IAS Hosting and then take the site live.
Then the ISP threw a spanner in the works. I won’t name them, but I’ve had several dealings with them before and not a single occaission can be held up as an example of (a) good service and (b) not ripping the customer off.
So we’ve established the owner of the domain, we’ve got control panel access and the domain isn’t due for renewal until September. But….because the ISP has ‘transferred’ the domain to its rightful owner, their (internal) rules say it can’t now be transferred for 60 days. So we now have a domain, in limbo, that’s as much use to a 1st June deadline as a chocolate teapot is to brewing a cuppa. Morons! And people wonder why I’ve got hypertension.
So the domain ain’t going nowhere for a couple of months. As time is running out, I make an executive decision - I buy a very similar domain name (i.e. with a hyphen splitting the words) and take the site live, and point the old domain name to the new one. Eventually they’ll both come together and everything will be fine.
At this point something happened. It’s a very sad thing to see a grown man cry. The javascript for a countdown timer, that worked fine in testing, threw a fit in a live environment and refused to co-operate. The site was quickly amended to omit the countdown. Eventually having given up part of a holiday in Jersey to fix the code, the timer was added back to the site.
The next day, Ruth Kelly announced that HIPS were to be postponed…….
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