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But it wasn't "creating a website" in five years. A lot of people keep saying "it's just a website" but I think it's a lot more than that.
Generally speaking, we come up with an idea, shoot the content, and produce a site. But that's not always the case. I used to be GM at Playboy ICS, and at every step off the way we had to "talk to legal". We would come up with an idea and legal would want to have multiple conference calls about it, then review the idea in private. Then they would want to review the guidelines about how the models were selected, then legal would want to pick the photographers, then - get this - legal would have to approve the shooting location (because we had to have insurance), and then legal would want to review every aspect of the design and would demand changes. Holy shit, if one model had her legs spread more than forty-five degrees everything would be rejected. And this is before we made any promo content or made any press releases.
I could only begin to imagine the difficulties here. This wasn't "five years to build a website". In June of 2012 - less than a year ago - this law was in the Supreme Court while we waited to see if this would become a law or not. Then factor in that long before any code was written hundreds of people had to be vetted and cleared just to talk to the fifty different states and examine how their laws and rules would come into play.
Don't get me wrong, it seems the technology used was ten years old. It took too long, and way too much money, and was done by the wrong people. On top of this, I read the other day that they are calling in Verizon to fix it. Really, Verizon? Because if I want a website design the first technology company I think of is Verizon.
Getting this off the ground is going to be a bitch. Let's get it running, figure out what's wrong with this, and then fix it.
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