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Launching a website has a precise technical definition. That's why it's GREAT jargon. It means "deploy to production" or "make it available to the users". Using
by sjducb 4y ago
Launching a website has a precise technical definition. That's why it's GREAT jargon. It means "deploy to production" or "make it available to the users". Using it correctly is a strong honest signal that you know about web development.
For the general public, you could use: Make website, build website, develop website, update website, create a new page. To an expert those feel wrong because they all mean slightly different things, the jargon is being used incorrectly.
That's exactly how government people feel when you mis-use: "ring fenced budget", "allocate money to", "assign money to", "raise money for". Those all mean slightly different things and using them wrong feels wrong and marks you out as someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.
- coding123 4y agoi like your take here. I have this problem with people. If someone says: Can you create a website that describes this process? My first question is what domain name? Then they say, what do you mean we already have our website on ...com? Then I say: You said create a website - that indicates you want an entire website, it sounds like you just wanted a new page on the existing website.
- wink 4y agoOh yes, so much this. The nice thing is that it's not unique to tech, I notice to many terms which are colloquially used only slightly wrong than by professionals when talking about my wife's work (in that case it's usually about legal/medical stuff).