Last minute panics

And just when you think it’s over – it’s not. I was just about to send an email to each of my six interviewees - alerting them to the fact the doco was finished, live, and ready for viewing – when for some strange reason I thought I’d take one last look at the blog to make sure all was in order.

Moving my mouse pointer across the page, I found that whenever I rolled over an image of an interviewee, it revealed the full file name – which contained the full first name and surname of the interviewee. Now some of those interviewees probably wouldn’t have a problem with this, but several others would, because they’re magazine editors and as such work in the public sphere.

So, before I hit send on that email, I quickly renamed the relevent photo files, deleted the original photos from the blog and re-uploaded the replacement photos, each of which has a file name of simply each interviewee’s first name – potential problem averted!

I’m looking forward to hearing what each of the six has to say about the end result, as I’m sure they only had a fairly vague idea of what the end product was going to look like. Not that I didn’t try my best to explain the project; just that the broad umbrella term of “online documentary” can mean so many things. I’ve asked them to pass the link on to any other interested parties too, so hopefully I’ll see my hits start to spike in the next day or two…