I had close to a thousand words written when my connection to my web host went wonky today. After much back and forth I have access to 2 out of 3 of my domains. The one that I don’t have access to is the one that I need to totally redo.

NoraJean-Designs.com has to be razed to the ground and rebuilt from scratch because the new browsers do not like FrontPage 2003 Themes. I don’t blame them that much actually. I mean the software is 7 years old and in computer terms that’s like retirement age.

There are a bunch of web sections of mine that have that theme and that use the slide show function. All those are cock eyed in the new browsers. They are hunky dorie in Internet Explorer because FrontPage is a MicroSoft product.

What is being offered post FrontPage is not an upgrade, it’s not a replacement, it’s  not even compatible really. It’s a Cascading Style Sheet thingie and I will lose the ability to control the navigation chart behind the scenes. Something I actually do use with FrontPage. So I may jump ship and leave MicroSoft since they left us FrontPage users high and dry.

Dreamweaver is compatible with FrontPage so I wouldn’t have to rebuild the whole website. I have other things I’d rather be doing: making new art, getting some sewing done. The picture above is my new sewing area. I did this monster rubic’s cube dance with boxes to carve out some sewing space in my one room.

Being a small business hopeful means you have to do everything: make the inventory, do the tech – set up the website, pick an electronic shopping cart, do the marketing, keep track of the income/outgo for the money. I mean really, all I wanted to do was to make pretty things and sell them. Now all the other parts of the process take up more time, resource, and energy, than making the pretty things.

Watch out. As soon as I get some money in I’m delegating some of this work that isn’t part of making pretty things. Or I’ll hire a house keeper, laundress, and cook so I don’t have to do those things and I can put energy into doing the small business dance.

No matter which way I look at it I do not have enough hours in the day, arms on my body, or resources needed to pull off this “I’m going to make money as an artist.” gig. Not without something suffering.

One positive side of getting a divorce is that freed up a whole lot of time and effort for me. I’ll have to thank him for it one of these days. I have more motivation to share what I know with the ClayMates, StarGazers, and Computer CITYzens, than I do taking care of some man who is old enough to take care of himself. I’m in the “I’m an elder of the tribe and I need to down load my data.” phase of my life.  I can’t even picture myself getting hooked up with someone. Just retelling my life story would make me want to rest for a couple of days.

Now a real working partner, someone who knew business inside and out and liked that part of the process. Oh that would be delicious. I’d make chicken katsu for him, no problem. Someone who had a bit of the tech geek in him too. That would be worth doing his laundry and ironing shirts. Ok I’ll send that wish out into the cosmos. A Boomer dude, biz wise and tech savy, looking for a gal who knows how to cook biscuits from scratch and who can fix zippers without complaining. Hah! Now that cheered me up mightily.

I best post this before something goes wonky with me and my web host again. It was weird, others could see my site but I couldn’t. I couldn’t access it through FrontPage. Slowly it’s being sorted out and fixed but I tell ya I had to make a concerted effort to enhance my calm.