Digital Choo Choo Train

"I know I can. I know I can..." Pushing a project through on the internet is like laying one rail at a time for a train with no road map.

Building a website is a long process that has one goal in mind, to launch. The launch date is built on shifting ground, one snag slows down the project or a change in plans sets a new direction and the track laid before is scrapped. It's never a straight line, it is a spider's web of round abouts and cul de sacs, the project weaves in and out with many lined coming in and ending up going nowhere.

A website is composed of many moving parts, each one controlled by a different job description, one cannot move forward without the others, much like a 10 legged potato sack race. Happenstance can bring a new idea that will make a sweeping change in the internet but most of the time it is ideas cobbled together to make a variation of the same three piece suit. A meeting of the people behind a website will show a diverse group of people that would never be lumped into the same group anywhere else, but that is where the ideas spring from a group that shares little in common except the idea of what a website is and that as a team they must move forward together.

Building a website is like a train moving one rail at a time, each rail brings you closer to your final destination, you just don't know how many rails or where that final stop is. All you can say is "I know I can, I know I can".

Image: Ophelia Chong / A beautiful web