Down for Maintenance
Here is another interesting area to look at during software development lifecycle. Once a web application goes live it is not the end. In fact its life starts getting serious once it goes live. New feature releases, updates and maintenance are part of an application’s life cycle. Unless and otherwise it is a critical application every other application would go offline during sometime of the year. During that time you do not want the users to get a “Cannot find …” error. The standard is to post a static page that says “The site is down for maintenance. We will be back shortly”. Today I was stumbling upon few sites and got into Whisher, looks like they were down for maintenance. See below the screenshot of their message. Makes a difference isn’t it?
zurichrocks Said,
September 18, 2007 @ 9:12 pm
Cool! If all error pages would be like that, Windows would make the world much happier
What is this Whisher company doing?
Dharmendra Said,
October 22, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
Making people smile with mood lifting contents is fast catching on with websites when they go under maintenance phase.