Drudgery Kills Creativity
Over the last two years I’ve had various good web ideas. Two of which I’ve gone ahead to build and put live. One was Post Expression, the other, soon-to-launch is bicingTag.
I’m involved in web design you see. So when I get good web ideas I set about building these things myself, or working with people who have skills I don’t, to build them.
Post Expression is a fabulous idea, but the programming of it, done off-shore was torturous. The developer might take a hike for three days and leave us to just… sit there. Or some element might get added, and when we’d try it, it was full of bugs. The process of programming took so many months that all my enthusiasm for what is a novel concept just disappeared.
I find the same with bicingTag right now. It’s taking long than planned. I’m going thru page after page with the developer (different guy to Post Expression) and finding more and more to do as each page passes. I mean, basic example: there’s a photo upload button, and when you upload the functionality will accept jpg, not gif. Why Not?! When it gets uploaded there’s no option to delete the image and replace it with another image. Why not?! There has to be, for usability sake, and therefore I’ll sit here, with my eyes closing from boredom and frustration boiling in my veins, while I ensure this basic stuff gets done. He’s a good guy, the programmer, and seem interested in doing the work work well, so we’ll get through it. Again however, my enthusiasm for a good idea is being diluted to such a point, where I’m afraid that when the site goes live, I won’t have any energy left to promote it: just like what happened to Post Expression.
My advise to anyone in my position: get someone else to do it. Or else it will kill you. I can’t see myself taking on another project like this for a very long time.
Trinity
Depends on what application you are using. Are you using Frontpage, Dreamweaver or anything like that? If I knew what you were using for the programming etc I could probably throw some light your way!
Mark
Nah, the front-end has been designed and built, it’s the functionality that’s slow to complete - it’s php with mysql db, with some ajax functions. Thanks for offer tho.
Trinity
yeah it can be a bit slow alright but once you get over the intricacies of php it should work ok. Of course it could be down to whatever operating system you are using as well, but hey I’m no expert! I’m just learning
By the looks of it you are the expert here, plenty of experience in the ole web design 
I’m assuming it’s configured to work with dreamweaver. Maybe the host,when developing restricted the uploads to just jpg? and you might need to compile php with gd library of image functions to work property and faster? You could check out www.mysqlfreaks.com or www.phpfreaks.com or freewebmasterhelp.com. There are tutorials and helpful hints there on how to accept and load images etc in mysql and php. I kinda have a look there when I get stuck!
Mark
Thanks for your assistance, Trinity.
Trinity
I just see that you have bicingTag up and running - I just had a sconce
well done! The drugery paid off 
Trinity
jazus that should read ‘drudgery’ and not drugery! my bad