WEBSITE!!!!

I am sitting here, not that early but it feels like it. Outside is dark and grey and the sky is dirty. I think this is a good day to create my website. I have asked various male children who are in the know and much much smarter than me in all things compy, but after the last hour I now understand why it just wasn't happening. Creating websites for older (read dumber) relatives is just plain annoying. I am really really annoyed and I AM that older dumber relative. But....I really want a website and I am a strong believer in doing things for one self. So, about an hour ago, as I was opening my email I see an ad coming from a website I had ordered business cards from. "Get a Website" it said. "really easy to start and maintain....you don't need any computer skills, as easy as one two three, one month free, blah blah blah" So there it was...that little button that says "Start Now". Easy, free month, no skills needed,...okey dokey I'm going to do it!! And I pushed the button.

My first initial impression was that this was going to be a breeze. There were four steps to creating this website. They already had the template/pattern set up to match the design I had chosen for the business cards. I liked it! So CLICK..button two. Now I had to choose a "domain name" What?? whats a domain? Would that involve my email address? or my computer name? or my name? What the hell is a domain name? Why do computer people think that we just automatically know these things? They said "NO computer skills necessary" and knowing what "domain name" means needs skills. So I temporarily left the site and wikkied it. I am still not sure but I think it is the name of the website that I want. So back I go to where I am on step two...and its gone. What?? Where did it go? So I went back to mail, clicked on the ad, clicked Start Now again and started over. I decided to move my web search page out of the way. And there was my page I had been working on, hiding behind the wikki page. Jeez!! So I went back to the first one and typed in Purpleroom.com in domain name. Up popped a little box that says purpleroom.com is not available. Ok so I tried about four thousand variations that I hoped I would remember until it finally accepted one of them. On to step three. Payment. That part was easy, of course. Final step was recieving the conformation in the email. It came. Yay!!!! Now I want to start building the site, changing the text, adding pictures, start a travel blog (maybe) etc... so I clicked on the edit website button.

And up popped one of those boxes again. This time it says that either explorer microsoft (I have a mac) or firefox is needed to see this website or work on it. What?? Whats wrong with safari? CRAP!! So back to the web and I went to Firefox's site and installed firefox. I even managed to put the icon in the dock (see? I am not totally dumb) and tested it out. So back I go and I click on edit website and I was taken straight to my new website. It looked fantastic. How exciting. So I click on the next edit button and up pops another little box. Again it is telling me that I need to use firefox. What the hell? So I then shut down everything, went to firefox, typed in my "domain name url or whatever the hell its called" in the address bar and VOILA!!! there it was. Again I clicked the edit button and changed what the website words were and wrote a bunch of stuff and clicked edit. Up pops a box again and says that I need to use explorer or firefox. Ok, I tried forty more things until I wanted to throw the lappy through the window.

This is so frustrating. I was savouring that smug moment when I could ever so casually send a link to my chillins and when they incredulously asked "Wow!! I was going to do that for you. Who did you get to do it for you?" I was going to nonchalantly answer, "Oh I just did it myself. I know you're really busy." But NO!! Now I have to ask one of them what the friggin hell is wrong with the friggin thing and why the hell won't it work when I even downloaded firefox. GOD!!! TTYL if I still have a laptop. Oh, and I will post a link if I ever get the stupid thing to work.