LBB Website

We are quickly approaching the start of 2012 which means two things for Life Behind Bars.  One, the New Year's Casino Riot is right around the corner.  And two, we have a lot of late nights ahead of us over these next couple weeks in order to get our website ready to launch. 

Creating a website is a very involved process.  Prior to this, my only website creating experience was for my law practice.  Maybe I am using the wrong terminology when I say "create."  I did absolutely none of the coding.  I'd be better off attempting to translate hieroglyphics than to explain what HTML 5 means.  I simply told someone what I wanted it to look like.  Anyway, the point is, the website I used for my law practice was quite simple.  Only a few different pages of information. 

On the other end of the spectrum is the website for Life Behind Bars.  There are a lot more than a few pages within the site and there are a ton of functions.  We hired a really skilled web designer to take our ideas and implement them into the site.  Things are going well, but we still have a lot left to do.     

We have a lot of ideas and it's important that we don't sacrifice the quality of the site for the sake of releasing it as soon as possible.  The plan was to launch the site by the next event (January 1, 2012).   Jerry, the web designer, is definitely capable of getting it ready by then.  The issue is that the more we work on it, the more ideas we get.  And with each new idea, means more work for everyone.  And more work means delaying the launch date...again.

That being said, we don't mind more work.  In fact, we embrace it.  For once we have found ourselves in a situation where work does not equate to misery.  Running Life Behind Bars is actually fun.  It's time consuming and can be stressful but, we love it.  We have met some amazing people and can't wait to see what 2012 has in store for LBB. 

But, I digress.  I was just talking about how with each new idea for the website, we have to delay the launch date.  At least that was our mentality.  Now we are looking at things from a different angle.  Instead of trying to complete the site and then launch it, we are instead going to get the website to a good point and then launch it with the expectation of having the site change as new ideas surface.

I suppose Mark Zuckerberg (the creator of FaceBook) was right when he said, "The site [Facebook] will never be finished, that's the point.  The way fashion's never finished."  It's a strange comparison, but it's true.  Fashion is never finished.  It simply evolves.  As will the LBB website.  We now understand that we will never arrive at a point in time where we step back and tell ourselves, the site is complete.  That's just not going to happen.  For if it did, that would mean we were selling ourselves, and more importantly, the INMATES, short.