Franktown Cafe

There’s a saying that says “It’s human nature to, when things are going good, to toss a “hand grenade” in it and mess it up.

When I started washoevalley.org the theory was to minimize monkeying with glitz and concentrate on content and that has worked well. Now, though, for some reason I am switching to the Mac and that is starting a cascade of things that are making things more complicated and taking time away from content (and everything else around here).

I guess the reasoning was that the Mac was supposed to make my life simpler and more logical but 6 months into it, it is just more complicated. The software I use for the website is not available for the Mac and so I still keep the old PC around just for the website and Family Tree Maker. I have Dreamweaver, the website creation software for the Mac, but it is for professionals and the learning curve has been more than an hour so I have gotten nowhere with it.

I decided, since washoevalley.org is really just a complicated blog, to switch to blog software and this would make me platform and location independant. I could update the site from anywhere. I selected a blogging program, WordPress, who advertises itself as “easy” and a new hosting site as it advertises itself as having a “one step” automatic intallation of WordPress.

Liars! After two days of wading through segmented bits of help sections, emails, forums and searches for this mysterious “one step” or “one click” process, I am just now getting a handle on how to complete the process of setting up and designing the NEW washoevalley.org. And it ain’t gonna be easy.

So stay tuned, even though new content may slow a bit, I am still working on the project, just behind the scenes. Hopefully, when the transition is made the new site will be slicker and and easier to update and manage. But isn’t that the eternal promise of computers. Are we there yet?