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Well, this has been quite an experience to say the least. I am a pretty competent html programmer,
IMHO, but it has been quite some time since I have actually had to go through and ftp client and
a bare bones web shell. It is all coming back fairly quickly, yet the progress of adding my existing
poetry and stories is kind of going slower than I had hoped. I said in the original message that
I posted here a couple of days ago that I was avoiding using frames. This is making the website
have a much more professional feel, but it is also keeping me from adding too many things too quickly.
I am going to have to go back and add the links to every single side bar on every single page,
every single time I add a new link.
I am pretty sure that if I was using some sort of web page creation software that they would have a way to do that on a macro scale with micro effort, but, I am still pretty stern about being a notepad programmer. What this means to you (that being me as my only site traffic) is that there will probably never be any amazing shockwave flash files, or any other such eye candy. You should be thankful though that you never (probably) had to see the site that I put up on angelfire. I will put a link to that here for the hell of it.
Of course I could be doing that now, but instead I am typing about it here. That way, thirty years
from now I will be able to look back at this page and say to myself, "Dear God, did I really not
have anything better to do?"
One other thing that I will mention here, for no particular reason, is that with site hosting comes
a unique email address. I had never really looked at that as a reason to set up a site, and now
that I am monetarily obligated to maintain this site I guess I better go ahead and take advantage
of it. I have used only web based email for a very long time, and I have done well with it. The
major ones all have integrated anti-virus software that help to put my mind at ease. Of course, when
the shit hits the fan and I get every virus from here to hell and back it may change my view.
I actually tried to open a message through a web based email server (who shall reamin nameless until
someone sends me a hefty check to endorse them) that I KNEW was a virus, and it would not let my
system download it. Now that is the kind of security I want from an email server! As it is now,
I am going to go back to using the base Outlook Express for receiving site email, though I will
definitely NOT be sending any mail through it. I will also not be adding any addresses to the book
there. Hell, to be frank, I might not read most of the messages for a horrible fear that they
are virus infested, but, the upside is that I can forward them to the tried and true web based
email that will scan them for me first (he says as his tower is slowly melting).
Well, damn, now it is time for the big game, I have not got a damn thing done that I was hoping
to, and I don't know if I will be coherent enough to give it a go later.
Oh well, there usually is a tomorrow.
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