We painfully managed to put online the third version of Radio Metal’s website a year ago. Our main difficulty was the developers’ team we had to work with; they quickly appeared to be unable to honor their commitments concerning our requirements as much as the work and organization that we expected from them.

In the end, we had to face a two months long delay on the planned planning, and endless debates about the difference between the final results and the ones expected. All this was made even more difficult by the distance separating us from our provider, almost a week of blackout while the homepage announced a data migration, and most of all numerous negligence that we had to override in order to be able to put this damned website online. And we had to succeed because despite of all the problems we had to face that made our 2010 summer very stressful, this third version was a real improvement for us as a media.

However, as described previously, we were annoyed by a lot of graphical, technical and functional defaults and it’s still the case today. For instance the very dark visual style, which really wasn’t what we expected because we wanted to bring more light to a musical genre that is too often hidden in the darkness. Moreover, our wish to improve the visual style guidelines was reinforced by the numerous readers who complained in their messages that the white text on a black background was hurting their eyes.

As everyone knows, “if you want something done it’s better to do it yourself”. That is why yours truly had to roll up his sleeves this summer in order to offer our dear internet users a website more in accordance with the one we planned to create one year ago.

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