Website dates (was Re: Why such a point of characters' birthdays?)

[sevenhundredandthirteen]

No: HPFGUIDX 111149

> Justine:
> > Darnit. The first news article on the site was from March 15th,
> and
> > the twins' birthday, noted as April 1st on the site, was missed.

> Stefanie:
> >>Is anyone else confused...because I sure am. Mugglenet's article
on
> the release of the website is marked down as May 15th
> (http://www.mugglenet.com/fusion3/fullnews.php?id=1183),
> but Justine is right: the first news article on Jo's website is
> labelled as March 15th. Checking on the Mugglenet news archives,
> there are several articles on March 15th, but certainly none dealing
> with the release of a website! Is this just a slip on JKR's site?
> (between March and May...I know I've made the mistake before) Any
> other confirmations out there?<<
> 
> HunterGreen:
> The Leaky Cauldron's archives don't have any articles on March 15th 
> about the opening of her website either (they do, however, have 
> several mentions of it on May 15th). Also, looking into our
archives 
> (from this list), the first mentions of the site are in May. It
must 
> be just a mistake on her site.

Laurasia:

I don't think it is a mistake, I just think the space between the
written date and publication date is the time spent making the 
website.

I remember reading those dates when the site first opened. I thought
that it meant that the content was written back in March, but wasn't 
unveiled on the site until May. As in, JKR didn't say 'Make me a
pretty site, I'll fill in the content later.' But said 'Here is some
content, make me a site which includes all of this.' 

That way the team (or person) who created the site knew that it was
going to be text-based, knew what kind of things would have to be 
incorporated into the layout, knew enough to make the design work 
with the content.

Of course, through trials and coding and working with Flash, it took
two months for the site to be finished, but it would have been 
incorrect to change the dates on the content.

~<(Laurasia)>~