It was obvious that the Web was here to stay. The MSDN site was unusual because it had a business plan and a small budget for graphic design. The team spent the summer of 1994 developing a specification, coding the site, and testing it prior to launch. Within a few days of the launch, the MSDN team realized that updating the site quarterly wasn't nearly often enough to satisfy a hungry Internet audience. The plan was revised to update monthly, then weekly, and finally daily.
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The team watched in horror as the content went live to a public server before it was ready. For the Internet Explorer 3.0 launch, the product support team released a fully overhauled knowledge base. However, their production environment didn't mirror the Web server, and the site was published without running a vital script that adjusted the drive letter used for the access point on the live Web machines. When customers tried to search the knowledge base, they'd get errors instead of results. The first test on the site with Weblint, a tool used to check validity of HTML, returned 100 pages of errors.