These have been the words constantly swirling around in my head since losing my two days a week job.  It’s not that big a financial loss, but it certainly will impact on my finances, and it’s an amount of money I can’t really do without.  Of course different opportunities present themselves at times like these…just to test you.  A small cafe for sale in a not so perfect location, but cheap, and someone willing to finance the puchase.  Then of course, I now have the time to dedicate to the course I still haven’t finished, but that won’t pay any bills for quite a while.  And then there’s the website idea.

For a while now I’ve been playing around with a concept for a particular website.  It’s something that could be financially lucrative, and there certainly isn’t a web site like it available here in the Highlands.   I even talked to someone about designing it for me.  Time and money have been prohibitative.  But now I have time, and after talking to someone about the concept recently, I’ve decided to take the bull by the horns and do it myself!

I started the ball game rolling on Friday the 13th, before my being put off from my job.  Hmm, some sort of intuitive knowing maybe.  Since then I my brain has been hurting!  This blog was so easy to set up.  Yet my new site has been quite the opposite,  (see my post: http://hotmiddlescence.com/2009/02/15/hostgator/)with one stumbling block learning curve after another.

Firstly, I did something wrong when uploading wordpressto the new site, so decided to delete what I’d loaded up and accidentally deleted files for this blog. Now that was a nightmare.

Secondly, I choose a theme with revolving pictures in the banner, and spent days trying to find out how to change the pictures.  Great theme with terrible support.  I did find snippets of information and along with some wordpress information, finally figured it out.   After searching, trying to make sense out of what I’d found, then trying to find the files I was supposed to access, then -  fear - changing code!  Finally success!   There they were, the photos I’d put into the code, on the title banner on my site.   What a buzz!

Then of course came the plugins….Hmm still having problems there.  I want a list of events, but I can’t get it to show in the side bars.  AHHHH!!!

So, I wrote a page, and put it where I wanted it, and another.  Then I decided to put the pages list where the events list should have gone.  No, that looked awful.  So what could I put there?  I can’t even find the code for that bit of space.  AHHHH!

For some reason, that escapes me right now, I decided to access my new site, like anyone else would, via the web address.  I typed the address in the search bar, pressed the button, and whamo, recieved a database error message.  AHHHH!!!!

Again Hostgator, came to the rescue, within no time at all.  They are seriously good, and they should pride themselves on the service they offer.  This again was my error, and again they fixed it so quickly, I was amazed.

Now, I’m at the point of deciding and writing a home page.  My head is full of ideas.  I just have to decide on the most suitable  for the site and its functionality at this point.  I also need to work out pages and categories and I really need to get some content up there, so I can share it and get some feedback.  AHHHH.

I hope I’ve made the right decision, in what to do.  I could possibly get another couple couple of days work to make up the deficit, between my remaining job and living, or I could spend time searching and applying for a new full time job of some sort.  I could take on the non thriving cafe in a not so good location, but I want to try making a go of my new site.  It involves writing, it involves the arts, entertainment, food, people, the incredibly scenic Southern Highlands;  all the things I love.  That’s got to be the direction to go in surely.

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