How I Built a Website for $16 in Chocolate

How I Built a Website For $16 in Chocolate

laura crossettInternet Librarian 2008

newrambler.net/lisdom/il2008

Somebody said that it couldn't be done. . .

what I wanted:

easy to updatestandards compliant

freeRSS

good lookingdid I mention free?

Somebody said that it couldn't be done.But she with a chuckle replied. . .

what I had:

no moneyminimal tech skills

what i had:

timeflexibilityfreedom

That maybe it couldn't, but she would be oneWho wouldn't say so till she'd tried.

what i did:

early mock-up

So she buckled right upWith a trace of a grin on her face.If she worried, she hid it.

what happens if I. . .?

"hmm, I guess that wasn't the right color choice. . ."

got help

Twitter, IM, Pay IT Forward

usability testing

She started to sing as she tackled the thingThat couldn't be done,

and she did it.

what I ended up with:

the web team!

this is not to say there were no problems

Credits:

One stanzas of “It Couldn't Be Done” adapted (with a gender change) from a poem by Edgar A. Guest

flying machine drawing:http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?T001820

Spencer Tracy in “Northwest Passage”:http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1551039

Women at work on C-47 Douglas cargo transport:http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179137415

LSW dogs photo by Cindi Trainorhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/2397151892

Thanks to my LSW friends, internet librarians all.