I'm building a website for the dance club my mom is part of (they do dance lessons and such).
I currently want to strangle everyone.
1) Everyone involved is over the age of 50 and knows nothing about the internet. One of them sent me some links she liked, including a menu she liked that was an animated image map on a site that looked right out of the 90s. I shot that down as nicely as possible, but her response seemed butthurt.
2) The host they're using sucks. Apparently they've been having problems - the person in charge has been trying to change contact info on it and not having ANY success. The website presents it as 'fill out this form and hit save'. I have no idea what the problem is, but apparently it won't save.
3) The person who made the previous site did some stupid stuff. Like instead of naming the front page 'index.html' like any reasonable person would do, put it in a folder with a long name and somehow set that as the home. I don't even know.
4) I'm currently sitting on hold waiting for a chat operator to tell me why I can't log into the ftp. According to their help files I should be using the correct info, but it's not working. The fact that I've been on hold for like 15 minutes makes me side-eye them like whoa. Why is the help SO busy?
5) Trying to download the files through their web interface results in an empty zip file. That's useful.
I really have no idea why they're still using this host, except that they're paid for the year. There's some other weirdness going on that I don't even want to touch. If I could just get this ftp stuff taken care of, I should be good for a while to get started.
I currently want to strangle everyone.
1) Everyone involved is over the age of 50 and knows nothing about the internet. One of them sent me some links she liked, including a menu she liked that was an animated image map on a site that looked right out of the 90s. I shot that down as nicely as possible, but her response seemed butthurt.
2) The host they're using sucks. Apparently they've been having problems - the person in charge has been trying to change contact info on it and not having ANY success. The website presents it as 'fill out this form and hit save'. I have no idea what the problem is, but apparently it won't save.
3) The person who made the previous site did some stupid stuff. Like instead of naming the front page 'index.html' like any reasonable person would do, put it in a folder with a long name and somehow set that as the home. I don't even know.
4) I'm currently sitting on hold waiting for a chat operator to tell me why I can't log into the ftp. According to their help files I should be using the correct info, but it's not working. The fact that I've been on hold for like 15 minutes makes me side-eye them like whoa. Why is the help SO busy?
5) Trying to download the files through their web interface results in an empty zip file. That's useful.
I really have no idea why they're still using this host, except that they're paid for the year. There's some other weirdness going on that I don't even want to touch. If I could just get this ftp stuff taken care of, I should be good for a while to get started.
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