As noted in my last post, I came down with a cold right at the end of our visit to our friends in Laurel. Ten days later, I still have it, although it has finally started getting a bit better. This has been a rough one, too, and I've felt like walking crap all week. I've been hearing that others have had it for up to three weeks, which is NOT a positive sign.
I've spent this week working on two different projects. One is setting up a consulting/professional services business. That one is moving along slowly as I'm doing some research into basic questions of what, how, why, and when. Not much to report on that one yet.
The other is the art studio business. No, I don't have a studio, and I'm going through withdrawals because of it. That's not the issue. This week, I've been working on revamping my web site. I built it years ago, writing all my own html code and revising it over the years. It's a pain in the butt to update, though. One of my artist friends uses Weebly, which is a web host that's really easy to work with, and I've been building an entirely new web site on it. As part of that effort, I've been doing a lot of digging through old stuff, writings, blog posts, and more, and it's been both fun and interesting to remember the various twists and turns my art has taken over the past several years.
Now the new site is finally done. Now I'm trying to get it activated and, unlike everything Weebly and my current web host say, that's not a simple task. Weebly provides some simple directions that don't seem to apply to my current host. When I contacted my current host's tech support, I got a really nice guy who obviously knows a lot. For example, one of the things he said was:
Generally your records that you want set up are * @ and www
So one record for *, one record for @, and the last for www. That should be a good start, and if you need any more records you add them about the same.
Generally @ can just be the IP address, * and www can be CNAMEs which are basically an alias, and those can just point to skiprohde.com.
I have no idea what that means.
So I changed my settings according to my best guess as to what Weebly and my web host said, hit "save", and am firmly convinced that my web site is going to be down for a week until some genius tech support guy comes to my aid and unscrews everything I've screwed up.
In the meantime, I'm looking for potential exhibition venues for the "Faces of Afghanistan" exhibit. I've sent several proposals out and am looking for more, particularly in the Washington, DC, area.
For this week, my goals are to (1) get my studio website up and running and (2) move the ball down the field with the consulting business. Exciting? No. But it's grunt work that has to be done.
I've spent this week working on two different projects. One is setting up a consulting/professional services business. That one is moving along slowly as I'm doing some research into basic questions of what, how, why, and when. Not much to report on that one yet.
The other is the art studio business. No, I don't have a studio, and I'm going through withdrawals because of it. That's not the issue. This week, I've been working on revamping my web site. I built it years ago, writing all my own html code and revising it over the years. It's a pain in the butt to update, though. One of my artist friends uses Weebly, which is a web host that's really easy to work with, and I've been building an entirely new web site on it. As part of that effort, I've been doing a lot of digging through old stuff, writings, blog posts, and more, and it's been both fun and interesting to remember the various twists and turns my art has taken over the past several years.
Now the new site is finally done. Now I'm trying to get it activated and, unlike everything Weebly and my current web host say, that's not a simple task. Weebly provides some simple directions that don't seem to apply to my current host. When I contacted my current host's tech support, I got a really nice guy who obviously knows a lot. For example, one of the things he said was:
Generally your records that you want set up are * @ and www
So one record for *, one record for @, and the last for www. That should be a good start, and if you need any more records you add them about the same.
Generally @ can just be the IP address, * and www can be CNAMEs which are basically an alias, and those can just point to skiprohde.com.
I have no idea what that means.
So I changed my settings according to my best guess as to what Weebly and my web host said, hit "save", and am firmly convinced that my web site is going to be down for a week until some genius tech support guy comes to my aid and unscrews everything I've screwed up.
In the meantime, I'm looking for potential exhibition venues for the "Faces of Afghanistan" exhibit. I've sent several proposals out and am looking for more, particularly in the Washington, DC, area.
For this week, my goals are to (1) get my studio website up and running and (2) move the ball down the field with the consulting business. Exciting? No. But it's grunt work that has to be done.
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