Two to go

A couple of new websites of mine have gone live. It's always a bit nerve-wracking when things go live. The environment shift is bad enough, but matters are complicated when you have to set an eCommerce payment gateway live at the same time.

The absolute nightmare from a launch perspective is when you get to redevelop an existing commerce site that is currently hosted elsewhere. It's the web design agency equivalent of cooking a roast dinner. Things have to be started at different times - the commerce go-live normally requires 48 working hours, and the DNS transfer can be up to 24 hours, depending on who's looking. If you don't get the timing right, your client will lose money.

Fortunately, these two went largely without incident. Here they are in all their glory.

• Tachodisc
• Liverpool Biennial

Don't get to do many projects from start to finish these days, so it was very nice to get these in the bag.