What's up with Blogger Gadgets?

I was trying to add this picture via the Blogger gadgets and I kept on getting the message that the picture wasn't valid. Then I added it to a webpage on my site and was told that the url wasn't valid. I think that the picture portion of Blogger Gadgets isn't valid. What a time sink all that was. So here's the picture of the Old Woman with the computer which is an embodiment of who I am.... just an old woman with a computer.

My Website is working

It took a month but my website is now functioning like it was before the content was moved to a new server. I know it's a problem with FrontPage and with FrontPage being discontinued I'm wondering what I'll have to do going forward. There's Expressions Web that's supposed to replace FrontPage but I've read that it's still buggy.

If my site weren't linked all over the place I'd give it a big re-org. But the tutorials are linked on a mess of other sites around the world and if I do a re-org I'd hear monster teeth gnashing.

This blog post is a test to see if my new Gmail email account is connected to this blog. It seems to be. I'll have to log out and log back in to test it.

Problems with Web Host

I tried to edit a page today and got the message that the permissions have been changed for my website. Not by me, that's for sure. Then when I tried to back up the site I got a message that there's some pages duplicated and I should delete them or change their names. I went to delete them and then got the message that the Front Page extensions have a problem.

I opened a tech support ticket at eMonsterHost and found that the date for the ticket was 12/31/1969, for goodness sake.

I checked my stats and they have not been updated for three days.

To say that I'm bothered is an understatement. I just got this new web host in Feb of this year.

I'll be blogging here for the duration of the problem.

It's all fixed

Ok, now that I can use FrontPage with my new computer I'm putting this blog to sleep for a while. 03-28-08: Computer wrestling. has a mess of nattering about it.

New Computer no FrontPage

It started around Valentine's day and with some difficulty I have my new computer up and running today, (03/28/09). What a PITA.

I exported my bookmarks to an external HDD and imported them to the new box. I had already copied PhotoShop to the external but didn't know if it would open so I tested it and I can open my PhotoShop! Yeah!

But my FrontPage isn't buying the new OS (Vista). Good thing my old computer isn't dead, it's just old and wheezy. Updating my website (norajean.com) is going to be slowed down since I have to unplug 4 plugs and plug them in do edits and switch plugs again. My worktable looks like a geek's dream date, computers, wires, externals, piles of software to be loaded up, notes on transfering data.

I don't like the new keyboard but my old ergonomic keyboard isn't a USB plug and it was starting to skip letters so I'll have to get used to using this one. If I ever get tested for typing speed they use these little rectangle jobs anyway.

The new computer came with 60 days of MicroSoft Office Suite to goof around with. I updated my resume at Monster.com. I had been wanting to do that but my Word files were on the D drive that died, prompting me to barter astrology for this external HDD, and I couldn't update my resume. Not much to add by way of job experience: four years of volunteering to teach art online and goofing around with my website. If someone finds that amusing and offers me a job I'll fall off my chair.

What else is going on... Oh I've been answering astrology questions on Yahoo Answers, there's a link to it on my website's home page.

With this new computer I am obligated to set up an e-commerce section on my site. I figure that astrology consultation has always been one of my "products" over the years so I'm adding that as what I have up for sale.

It couldn't hurt that there's over 1,800 list members at CITY-o-Clay who might be interested in having me read their charts since they know me already.

There's a couple of things I've been being told by family about marketing: I am not the best one to toot my own horn, I don't take my skills seriously, that I am my own art project, that there's got to be some inexpensive things as well as expensive things, etc.

Yeah, but I'm thinking that there's a couple of things I have done: established a web presence, built a fan base, and established a brand. This astrology answering stuff is a brand building that's deliberate.

I've already consulted young adults in India, competing with the Vedic astrologers. Russia is the leading country visiting my site. I'm thinking that maybe my Russian visitors would like to have their charts read by their favorite polymer clay teacher. With the internet anything is possible. The days of walk in traffice has been replaced with hits and eyeballs to the website.

So we'll see if I can parlez astrology readings as part of my earning potential. I could fold in some astrological polymer clay things while I'm at it. That would be hip. Individualized charts done as key chain fobs.

I'll be linking this blog to the site's home page when I give the home page an update.

What I have to figure out is since I'm a legit customer of FrontPage, I want the $99 upgrade to Expressions, but the FrontPage is on my old computer and I need the Expressions to be loaded on my new one. Can it happen? That's the big question. If I can't figure that out then it's hundreds of dollars for a new copy of Expressions.

Gave up on WordPress

Yahoo mail is down and it's made me realize how much email I have stored on Yahoo's servers. It's scary. I grew dependent on Yahoo through the Yahoo Groups and Yahoo email, that when there's an outage I'm dead in the water. Looks like I need to do an archive through Outllook sand store it on my own HDD.

I had a WordPress blog, it went wonky and I figured it was the old web host . I got a new webhost and have been spending the last couple of months updating my website, copying thousands of pictures off of Epson because that's closing down April 2008, I got a Valentines's gift of a new computer from my estranged husband and it came in broken. It should be arriving at the ACER repair as I type. So that's where I've been lately.

I also started up a wee prefab websection that's going to be my blog area on my website. This space is a back up, something that's needed when switching webhosts. Or when Yahoo Mail has an outage and I'm jonesing.