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Weavin' Wicker Woman™ MIA, part 2

December 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

The mishap with the blog saga continues…

So, I taught myself hand-coding, using tutorials available online bought some website design and coding reference books. I still have those books too, but most are pretty outdated now.

I bought my own domain name, decided the focus would be a resource site for chair caning, wicker furniture repair and basketry, designed and hand-coded the site and put it on the Internet, all nine pages of it in November of 1999!

Now, that same wicker related resource site has branched out to over 200 pages with many more features. And a couple years ago when I did a revamp of the design and launched a bigger and better version, began using templates and WYSIWYGs. I also hired a very talented website designer, who has helped me immeasurably with the new setup.

Then in 2004, I began blogging here on Blogger.com, which has the delightful WYSIWYGs! Coding is all done behind the scenes using CSS and HTML coding, but the owner/blogger only has to work with the WYSIWYG, supplying them with simple, user-friendly page elements to just “click and drag” and all that good stuff.

I’ve experimented around with various templates, but really only cared for a few. I was trying to keep things simple for me and generate some passive income, but at the same time, provide interesting content and a reason for people to follow my blog.

Which gives you a little background as to the “why” the problems occurred this last week, concerning the Weavin’ Wicker Woman ™ Blog… I messed around in the code, trying to convert the two-column format into a three-column format…continued, part 3.

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Weavin' Wicker Woman™ MIA, part 1

December 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

This saga began as a really long post, so I’m breaking it up into separate shorter post sections. Sorry I’ve been missing in action (MIA) here for the last few days, but had a rather harrowing thing happen with my blog.

 

If you are a regular follower of this blog, you can see that there have been many changes made to it in the last few days. And I might add, those changes were not made entirely on purpose!

I’m presenting this thread topic here as something for you NOT to do regarding your blog, in hopes you will learn from my mistakes. I’m sure these separate posts about what happened to me will be a big help for those of you new to the blogosphere. I really hope you NEVER have to go through this harrowing ordeal with your blog! Ouch!
As some of you might know, I taught myself hand-coding of websites way back in 1999 when I began my domain site, WickerWoman.com.

Click on this link, WickerWoman.com2000 to see what it looked like on the earliest recorded version of my site that the Internet Archive, Way Back Machine has archived. What a hoot, huh?

If you have the time, this is a great place to play, viewing all the older versions of some of your most favorite sites! Just get their site URL and plug it into the “Take Me Back” input field.

It wasn’t really that I had a profound urge to delve into and learn HTML coding, it was just that I was too broke to pay someone else to design and maintain a website for me.
Way back then, there weren’t many fancy what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) templates with all the bells and whistles that are available today for the novice website or blog owner to use.
In order to get a fairly good looking website in the olden days of the Internet, you had to do the coding yourself or hire it done. And at that time, paying someone $100 a page to design, and then another $35-50 a month to maintain, was just out of the question… continued on part 2

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Will You Do Your Part to Help the Children?

December 4th, 2009 · Comments Off · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

Help Yourself By Helping Children . . .
The 9th Annual Internet Toy Drive!!

 

We are proud to be a partner with the official U.S. Marines “Toys for Tots” program in The Ninth Annual Internet Toy Drive.

 

It’s a sad fact that millions of children in the United States will NOT have a single gift to open on Christmas Day!
We aim to change that and make sure EVERY child has at least one present ‘from Santa’ under their tree.
Help a needy child in YOUR community right now:
http://www.InternetToyDrive.org
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