SportsLizard is up and running, but...

The new-look SportsLizard has officially launched, 10 days before my April 1 due date. When I initially took this project on, I thought an April 1 launch would be pushing it, so I'm very satisfied with where I am at. Here's a page that describes some of the new and interesting features. All of that said, it's not really all the way launched lol.

In addition to just launching the new site, I had to move the site to Pure Adapt's server. And since I was eliminating like half of the old SL, I had all sorts of fun things like writing over a hundred 301 redirects (and I know I didn't get everything). It felt like I was trying to accomplish 50 things all at once. So I got to a point today where I just needed the site to be propagated to the new server to be able to move ahead. So I changed the DNS and crossed my fingers.

I've yet to fully test everything, but I think 95+% of the site works fine. I'm going to go through each and every page and function in a few minutes. I have two big things remaining: installing an advertising-management platform (planning on going with OpenAds) and templating the old articles to match the new site (I know, if I had programmed the site better/smarter I wouldn't have this problem - I'll go back to 2004 and yell at myself).

I hope to get that crap done by the end of the weekend, and then I can move on to contacting advertisers, soliciting more sellers, and driving more traffic to the site. I'm trying to be careful not to burn myself out getting to the launch point - in the past I've worked insanely hard just to launch something, only to realize that the launch is like 1% of the job. Although I'm working 12-15 hrs/day right now, I'm not mentally looking at the launch as THE accomplishment, just putting things in place so I can do the stuff that will grow the site and make us some cash money.