Simple Mistakes
I was going through my site today when I realized all the flash pages didn’t show in Internet Explorer. I instantly knew what it was. Only because a week ago I was working on another site that wouldn’t display a simple ad I created. Every time I had looked at my site I just figured it was Flash running slow. Turns out when I use the object tag, for the movie parameter you gotta specify the path as well as in the embed part. Luckily I had gone through that little run on the other site I was doing a week ago because I knew the problem instantly.
Thing is, the hits on FlashStuf have been steadily decreasing since right around the very beginning of January, when they were their highest. They were just falling for no apparent reason. When looking at my code of where the pages started going wrong, the very first incompatibly-coded page was made December 26. It all made sense.
This just shows how regular, constant testing is always necessary (though I’m usually pretty good about this). Especially when it’s dealing with my site’s main content. I must’ve lost tons of visitors because they figure most of the games and movies and stuff they came for isn’t even showing up. Granted it was 63 pages that needed the change, but that’s a huge deal considering my 150ish flash pages. Luckily I can attribute the hits-drop to that and some other reason I have no idea of. Basically, this has taught me a lesson. And I’m working on tons of other features for the site now that I know nothing big is broken (I won’t be wasting my time).
