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Saturday 28 October 2006, 11:14 AM
Countdown to launch!
The big countdown begins now. After nearly nine months of design, development and beta testing, the new site is ready for launch. Ahead of us lies a long weekend of data migration, editorial slog, bug fixing and pizza's.
This is without doubt the biggest project we've ever undertaken here at CNET. We have redesigned sites many times before but nothing on this scale. Not only have we redesigned and re-structured the site, we have completely re-built the content management system to bring user generated content and social networking functionality to the fore.
The data team in Singapore are just about to start the process of migrating all the content and user data from the old CMS to the new. Then we can start our part and with a following wind we should be ready to go live on Monday....
This is without doubt the biggest project we've ever undertaken here at CNET. We have redesigned sites many times before but nothing on this scale. Not only have we redesigned and re-structured the site, we have completely re-built the content management system to bring user generated content and social networking functionality to the fore.
The data team in Singapore are just about to start the process of migrating all the content and user data from the old CMS to the new. Then we can start our part and with a following wind we should be ready to go live on Monday....
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