Week 4: Working through the speed bumps

So the website launch didn't happen as planned

July 9th has passed us. The original plan was to have our vendor side of the website live by that date but problems have arisen.

Better yet, let us call them what they actually are: bugs.

The ability to be flexible and work through challenges is a vital skill to have in any industry, especially digital marketing. Anything related to technology is prone to not working as planned. As the interns taking the lead with this project, one of our jobs is to find the bugs and solve them. We have to run through the vendor signup process ourselves to find the most efficient and user-friendly way having this process. Just to name a few of the things that need to be done before the big unveiling.

Anyway, these setbacks are necessary because it shows us that our website is not ready to be taken to the public, just yet.

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