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Managing staging sites at a garage
26 Oct 2024
How a garage deals with staging sites — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a contact form with nine fields. This breaks staging sites for a garage.
staging sites for a garage is nothing like staging sites for a multinational. The scale is tiny but the stakes are the same: one wrong record and nobody can reach you.
The job started when a garage realised their staging sites had been wrong for months. Nobody noticed because the site still loaded.
Our own site had a contact form with nine fields for three days before a colleague noticed. We added it to the pre-launch checklist the same afternoon.
We quoted a garage half what the other firm did because we did not propose features they did not ask for. The scope was staging sites, not a rebrand.
We got a call from a garage on a Friday. Their staging sites had expired overnight, and the booking page was returning errors to every visitor.
Every CMS update brings a small chance that staging sites breaks. For a garage, we pin versions and test upgrades in a staging copy before touching production.
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