Going live and accolades
A week after Lynn's meeting with Jim and the rest of his team, the site was ready to go live. Jim's team had migrated a copy of the development site, including the code, database, and user files, onto the production servers. On that momentous day, Jim contacted the domain registrar and changed the IP addresses for the bluedroprealty.com
domain. A couple of hours later, visitors to the site were surprised and impressed.
Later that year, at the annual realtor's conference for the state of Missouri, the bluedroprealty.com
website won an award for the best locally produced website of the year. Lynn was excited when she got the news and shared it with Jim.
"Jim, you aren't going to believe this!"
"Well, hello Lynn. Long time no talk. I presume all is well with your new site?"
"Not only is it running better than it ever did in Drupal 6, but it also just won the state realtors association award for the best website of the year!"
"An award justly deserved, even if I do say so...