Dear Hot Scripts Members

Besides my love for the Web, I have a passion for aviation. I occasionally play Flight Simulator, listen to live air traffic control feeds or enjoy an episode of Air Emergency that examines air crash accidents. It is amazing to realize that most air disasters are caused by human error, either during maintenance or during aircraft operation. Following each air crash, investigators review the maintenance records that give a chronological breakdown of the history of the aircraft. At times, a little erroneous change some months ago can have an impact on the proper functioning of an aircraft in the long run.

The same thing applies to our web sites - you maintain a web site, it's wise to keep a maintenance log of changes and events as they pertain to the site. More than once, you'll come into situations that correlate with past site activity. These logs will provide valuable information to explain situations such as changes in traffic, conversion or revenue. You can keep track of changes to your site's design or coding, launch of new features and services, downtime or other networking issues, and so on.

I personally use Twitter for my maintenance log. By creating a Twitter account and setting it as private, I can easily tweet any site changes or events, and I can share the maintenance log with my co-workers. You can also keep your maintenance log in a Word document.

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