Test first

[Masters, Gary E]

Jackie:

I am afraid that there is one point that I don't understand.  Why is this in
production?  One ought to do the site, test it and then put it in production
with all of the pages you want when you like the results.  Not before.  It
is reasonable to take a set of pages and work on it until it is right, but
not as a production site.  How did this come to be?

If this were my situation, I would sit down and draw up a plan for the
completion of the project (with a time table) that would list all of your
concerns and actions that you want done.  Then hold the person to it (within
reason, of course).  One can always get into a project without all of the
planning done and it can be corrected as you go.  But it is not the easiest
way to go.

Good luck!

Gary Masters

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Jacqueline N Loop/LOO/CC01/INEEL/US [SMTP:LOO at inel.gov]
	Sent:	Wednesday, May 10, 2000 12:36 AM
	To:	Multiple recipients of list
	Subject:	[WEB4LIB] Unauthorized copy of web pages


	Here's the situation - our library has a programmer on loan from the
	computer department,
	tasked with building an interactive web interface to our catalogs.
He
	has built a web
	page for searching the catalogs, on a separate server from the
library's
	main web page server.
	On the left of his page he has cloned the list of links from the
library's
	main web page.
	Instead of actually pointing to the main page links, he has copied
the
	pages & put them on
	his server (actually a library server, but he has taken over
administrative
	control of this NT
	server & blocked access by library staff).

	Either by design or ignorance, not all of the files were put on his
server,
	so the customer
	who does a catalog search & then thinks he is returning to one of
the main
	web server pages
	can get incorrectly displayed pages or in some cases broken links.
I feel
	this is going to
	erode customer confidence in the library's real web server &
consider the
	page to be under attack.
	This has been going on in one form or another for several weeks, &
my
	heretofore polite requests
	 to cease & desist have been met with - nothing.

	I am considering my course of action now  - I know I have to come up
with a
	solution within the
	constraints of my own work environment, but I am curious to know if
this or
	something similar has
	happened to anyone out there & how  you fared in resolving it.   Or
if I'm
	worrying too much
	about small annoyances.

	Thanks,
	Jackie
	loo at inel.gov