If you haven't read Rick's comment posted on Adam's blog, you really should. He provided an eloquent and insightful post.
After his post, all I can do is confirm, according to my experience, that web development is not easy. It's hard. I don't think many people really understand what goes in to it...especially, when you want to do it right.
Our J694 class of online producers learned a lot this semester, the hard way, in a very short time. Such is the nature of education, such is the nature of the web biz. At the very least, all of the students will leave, (some of them graduating and leaving college for good), knowing a lot more than they did when they came into this class in January.
Planning takes time, it takes rough drafts, and second rough drafts, and third, and sometimes even starting from scratch all over again. It's all part of the development life cycle.
And it's good to know that we can throw journalism students into a project like this and see them really thinking about it. In the end, when it all comes together, the sportsTV site should be something this semester's class is really proud of.
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