Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:09:48 -0400 To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: New Dr. Who Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> He sent me a Dreamweaver CD and I have a password to get into it. Not like I have any how to do what I want if I ever do get into it. I'm afraid I'm rather intimidated by computers. I was the office expert in my last few jobs in the AF, but that just means that I know about <ctrl>X,Y,V,C, and Z, not that I actually understand computers. At 02:55 AM 4/15/2005, you wrote: >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. Candy P.S. I don't have any pictures yet, but see my new web-site at www.hourglass-creations.com