Is Plainfield's website finally near rebirth?

City's website has been in limbo for 10 months.

Plainfield's official website, which went into digital limbo last October, may now -- 10 months after going dark and nearly a month after the revamp was promised -- be being resurrected to a new life.

Rumors have it the Administration has been highly embarrassed over the failure to deliver on the promised June 30 re-launch date and has been pushing a developer (don't ask who's paying for this!) to get a functional site up ASAP.

(I am really looking forward to seeing if the highly annoying and now utterly passé mandatory Flash introduction has been abandoned for a more straightforward, businesslike approach.)

Each day since June 30, I have diligently logged on to plainfield.com, and each day have received the front page you see at the top of this post.

Going out to check the site last evening, I found instead the following screen --

Plainfield.com cannot be found.

This error message means that the domain name identifier had been removed from the DNS servers, the lookup table that lets your web browser connect with the hundreds of millions of web pages in cyberspace.

It also suggests that the site's developer had taken it off the stream in order to switch service to a new Internet provider and then republish the information, allowing users to -- finally -- connect to the new website.

I may, however, be too optimistic.

Visiting the site as I write this, I find that the OLD WEBSITE IS STILL UP, but that the annoying error message regarding the expired weather service that prevented the pages from loading without your intervention has been removed. Progress.

Slouching toward Bethlehem, I remain, yours truly...

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Plainfield's Official website is here --

• "City of Plainfield"
  

-- Dan Damon

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