15 minutes later than we would have thought possible ...
The good news: I'm done with two-and-a-half days of training in Publicus, the new Web-publishing system we're going to be using.
The bad news: We can't just start producing new Web pages and new content right here, right now.
Our instructor told us that the absolute soonest he'd ever seen a new site launch was four weeks after training, and that was at a site that wasn't doing any major redesign. (We, of course, are doing a major redesign.)
The main reason is that the system relies on a set of files -- templates and other things -- that have to be created before Web publishing can commence. That would take a while even if we were using an existing, basic page design. But we're designing from scratch, and although that process began before training, we're nowhere near done.
I'd been under the impression that that work was complete, or nearly so -- that it was supposed to have been completed before training began. That's not correct, and to the extent that anything I've said may have led people to share my misimpression, I apologize. And I promise: I'm not going to offer any more estimates or predictions.
Good thing I work in the communications bidness, huh?