May 21, 2006

Housekeeping

I'm in the middle of both an upgrade on this blog and learning the ropes of another system for a different project. This basically means I'm bugging Mr. Cracker to the prescribed limit then breaking out the credit card.
Then I go lay down in a cool, dark place.

Posted by floridacracker at May 21, 2006 06:07 PM

   



Comments

I can relate very well to the last thing. Fair-thee-well on the rest of it...I wonder sometimes if their are two of you.

Posted by: csason at May 21, 2006 07:57 PM

What new system are you going to? Just curious.
Hope all goes well.

Posted by: Trambo at May 21, 2006 10:25 PM

Gah. This one is being upgraded to MT 3.2 first off. Then I'll cry as I try to make the sidebar go throughout. Then I'll run away and hide.
Do you know back in December and January I contacted 3 different web design places and none of them got back to me. Business must be good.


I uploaded WP just to try it out. We spent all afternoon just trying to get a new theme loaded in. That's with the help desk and MC. I told MC if I wanted attitude I could just open another ticket with the help desk.

I have a long list of plans and I'm taking them one at a time so I don't melt down underneath them. So far, most of my plans involve my credit card. The little niggling gripe that runs like a thread throughout is the fact that MC is an executive in a computer company and is a genius who's set up internet telecommunication stuff in Third World shitholes all over the globe, but this blog stuff, man, this is just too tough for him. ;) Like the jet fighter pilot who tells his wife he can't work the washing machine. This blog is on a hosting company instead of on one of MC's several servers in the next room because I can open a ticket if I have to.

Posted by: Donnah at May 21, 2006 10:46 PM

Donnah,

WordPress is very friendly. I'm not familiar with MT, but I've used WP, Xoops, e107 and several others. Those three are the easiest to use, IMHO. If I can help, let me know.

Posted by: Trambo at May 21, 2006 10:57 PM

I'm in MC's world..... All I can say is good luck.

Posted by: Gmac at May 21, 2006 11:57 PM

I love, love, love WordPress. Can't say enough good things about it, and if you decide to go in that direction and have any questions, don't hesitate to email. Not an expert, but I have been using it for a couple of years now.

Leanne at Intricate Art [http://www.intricateart.com/blog/] does blog design... some of her stuff is truly inspired. She's nice, and returns emails. :D

Posted by: pam at May 22, 2006 07:39 AM

This upgrade is complete. I've opened a new blog under this new version and am hacking up the templates merrily. I'll switch them out when I'm done.

Though I'm also playing around with Word Press, I don't know what if anything I'll do with it right now. I just dropped on a bundle on the MT people, so I'll not be switching out anytime soon.

Thanks for all y'all's good wishes. I'll be in the back chopping up a CSS file.

Posted by: Donnah at May 22, 2006 09:23 AM

I upgraded the Swilling to 3.2 when it came out, and I'd love to improve the looks but I haven't a clue about CSS and stylesheets and all that stuff.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at May 23, 2006 12:51 PM

I could work with 2.6, but I'm a bit overwhelmed with this new stuff.

Posted by: Donnah at May 24, 2006 05:19 PM