New Tech Gripes
01/21/2009 23:25
So I upgraded the ISP service, and bought a new web design package, RapidWeaver. Inevitably, I spent the entire day trying to get the things to work, separately and together. The email on the new server isn’t quite working yet. I managed to get the web software to actually publish the pages I designed. Buried deep in the Support Forum’s thousands of posts, is a suggestion that worked. It wasn’t a user-error sort of thing. You have to delete some cache files from a Library file in your User file. Not the type of thing you’d stumble over, even if you were a certified UNIX hacker and C programmer with 20 years experience. Maybe they should’ve mentioned it a little more prominently? Would’ve saved me a couple hours of frustration - and I can’t be the only one...
It’s a good thing, after all, that there’re simple solutions like iWeb. Sure, you get herded into the dot Mac world, and woe betide you if you want to do things your own way. But even so, the themes in iWeb are easier to customize than the themes in RapidWeaver. If iWeb could’ve synchronized with a third-party ISP, rather than forcing me to publish the whole site every time and ftp it to the server, I’d probably never have switched. Cuz I’ve got to say, even after all the frustration getting it going; once I changed a couple things on the site and it uploaded only the changes in a second or two --- THAT was COOL!
This photo is apropos of nothing, but I like it.
It’s a good thing, after all, that there’re simple solutions like iWeb. Sure, you get herded into the dot Mac world, and woe betide you if you want to do things your own way. But even so, the themes in iWeb are easier to customize than the themes in RapidWeaver. If iWeb could’ve synchronized with a third-party ISP, rather than forcing me to publish the whole site every time and ftp it to the server, I’d probably never have switched. Cuz I’ve got to say, even after all the frustration getting it going; once I changed a couple things on the site and it uploaded only the changes in a second or two --- THAT was COOL!
This photo is apropos of nothing, but I like it.
