Blog time again
[ Mar 04 2005, 19:12 ]It's Friday and the end of what feels like a very long week. Polytec Personnel went live on Wednesday after a fairly intense period of last minute alerations, adaptations and corrections - some simple and some challenging, and thankfully all now entirely settled.
What else?
Round Peg are back in Google again after a couple of months of being seemingly barred. It's been quite a hassle getting it re-accepted and I expect my email to the big G outlining the site's history and my feelings about how it may have inadvertently broken some of G's rules might have helped. Direct contact is always a last resort and I think this is only the second time I've approached the support team.
Apart from that
I've been helping Ken of homesearch.uk.net - ah - an interruption. Perhaps not. There was a tap on the window then and a wave from someone who looked as though they might pop in, but they've not - not yet anyway. So, Ken, Homesearch, yes... it started with a phone call out of the blue. Ken was/is setting himself up as an estate agent, (although I thkn he prefers 'Realtor' to be different'), and is planning on launching his website... would like a form... how do you do a menu?
If I were you, I wouldn't start from here
I shouldn't really admit to this, but when it comes to hapless beginnners I'm a bit of a soft touch, and it quickly became apparent that Ken was not just a beginner at websites but his experience of using a computer at all could be considered 'domestic'. Anyway, far be it from me to advise someone that if they're making a website a core component of their business that they should either get some general PC training or hire someone else who has some. (Actually I think I did say that at one point).
To be brief, what started as a request for help with a menu in a form turned into explaining a bit about how forms work, about how websites work, about how his 'Real Estate Wesite Creator' worked, (or doesn't) - I bit the bulllet and downloaded a copy and did that "now click this, now type this, no the C drive is this, a drop-down menu is that" conversation. I had no choice. I knew only too well that without some help his website and his plans to launch his business would have drifted for weeks while he tried to get the people in the States who sold him his 'novice-friendly' software to explain how to get it do what he wanted.
Needless to say I've found a friend. Good luck Ken, if you find this, which I think is pretty likely.
Time to stop
Enough wafffle for a Friday. More tomorrow, maybe.