Comments on: B5 Script Series Shutting Down

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:07:40 +0000

Funny, I just assumed it was because someone didn’t want to have to work during Comic-Con.

By: aeryncrichton

aeryncrichton — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:01:38 +0000

LOL! I hear ya on that. But CafePress doesn’t exactly work like that, as far as I can tell. We’re re-working our CP shop right now for our Farscape forum, and you basically just make changes as you go along. As far as I can tell, there’s no easy way to do your test site and swap everything out at once…. Of course, we’re also pretty unskilled — I was THRILLED to figure out how to put a mailto link into the text, LOL! — so maybe there’s an easier way. The people running the Joe Store do seem to have more skills than we do….

Hmmmm….but then my theory that they took it offline for a redesign doesn’t hold water at all, does it…. D’oh!

By: Kelson

Kelson — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:48:09 +0000

I’ve never really understood the idea of closing a website for a redesign. It’s not like a physical store where you need to keep people out while you’re working on it. You can do everything on a test site, then upload the changes all at once. The only time you need to take things offline is while you’re swapping in the changes.

Funny, I now have this image of someone building a new store, then coming in after hours with a crane, removing the old building, and dropping the new one in its place.

By: aeryncrichton

aeryncrichton — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:29:24 +0000

The way I read the e-mail, they’re closing down the rest of the store — which would include the quotes and the campaign stuff — “until August.” I presume they’re planning an update or some kind of revision of the shop. Or it might be their way of making sure that they can keep the income from the books completely separate in some way, allowing a month for returns. Very mysterious, but I did get the distinct impression it was temporary.