Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 02:55:29 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: New Dr. Who
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 08:24 PM 4/14/05 -0400, Candy Madigan wrote:
>*I* did not put that BS on my site.  I had a perfectly nice one pager that
>told about my company and then changed site hosters to a guy in FL who is
>very nice and quite competent, but didn't understand that my site was not
>my highest priority.  He deleted my about us apparently thinking that I
>would go in and change it immediately.  Well, I have more important things
>to do like sew things for people, so it's been sitting like that with fake
>latin and computer parts since July.  Taking photographs and getting them
>up on my webpage isn't my highest priority especially since I happen to be
>a rotten photographer and am not making enough money to afford to pay
>someone to do it for me.

I would guess that there's a standard "template" that got set up, with your
main page as the home page, but the rest is still just the template.  Yes,
he probably figured you'd go in and change things as necessary, and that by
providing a template to be modified he was helping you out.

Even without photographs, some updates to personalize it a bit should be
fairly simple to do...even if you just get rid of the links to things that
aren't set up yet and send them all to an "under construction" page that
explains that things aren't set up completely yet.

What sort of interface for editing the pages does the site have/require?
Is it just a matter of FTP'ing some new files into your area?  Or do you
have to use some specific tool or CGI at the site?  If it's just FTP, then
just putting up your old HTML file should get you your old site back if it
was just a single page.  Just wondering...and we can talk about it after
the meeting if you like.

-- Mike B.