"Crush It or Crash: Share Your Worst Website Development Horror Stories"

[slavians]

Title: Crush It or Crash: Share Your Worst Website Development Horror Stories

"OMG, devs and designers, let's hear 'em! I've seen some crazy website debacles in my time, but one that still sticks out was when a client's custom plugin update caused their entire e-commerce site to go down, resulting in a lost weekend of sales. What's the worst website horror story you've experienced?"

 

[anes34]

"OMG, I got a doozy for y'all. I once worked on a client site where the designer had embedded hundreds of tiny font images instead of using CSS. Our dev team had to rip the site apart to find the culprit and fix the 1MB+ CSS file"

 

[Marylinda]

" Ouch, just had to share... so I was hired to revamp a client's site and they had 10 years worth of unorganized code. Next thing I know, their entire database is wiped and I'm scrambling to rebuild it from backup – talk about a stressfest"

 

[ktelekom]

Is Django still relevant?

 

[natali64]

"OMG, guys, I had the craziest experience with a client who wanted a website in 2 weeks, but had no clear idea of what they wanted. We spent 2 whole days back and forth just trying to nail down the UX design, only to find out they wanted to completely change the scope 3 days before launch. Needless to say, it was a nail-biter!"