Website Update

Thought I would update everyone on the site today as well. David and Jessie have been crunching some serious code... I have built a few websites over the years, but never one that interacted with databases, had user controls, or required user authentication... Never would I have thought that a coupon site would be so labor intensive in regards to not only the UI - User Interface (the look and feel) but the back-end (database) and middle-ware (business logic that flows between the UI and the DB)...

Anyway, we feel that something temporary needs to be put up... why? Well, first off, we are getting hits already to the Chasing Savings domain name... so there is risk that we could be losing members and potential vendors. But the bigger risk is if Google, Yahoo, Bing! or any other major search engine picks up the url from sites like this or facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc... then the search engine will see a 404 error, which is bad...

So over the last few days Jessie and David have been pouring over their PC's writing real code for a real site, I got out my What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get website editor - Microsoft Expressions Web, and through something together... Hopefully by this weekend we will have that loaded. It is EXTREMELY BASIC but at least we will have a presence on the web..

Keep Saving!
Mike.