In the past few weeks, I've been learning what to do to make this information blog useful to you. Cleaning up the extraneous clutter on the pages, adding the needful back in and providing opportunities for your feedback.
Like most website owners, I've continued to sweat the small stuff, often waking in the middle of the night with an answer or another item for the to-do list.
There are three possibilities in this (and any kind of work)
- Find the problem and accept that you cannot fix it. There may be a work-around, but computers live by rules. Some of those rules, when broken, cause it to crash. Don't break those rules.
- Find the problem and fix it yourself. Or hire it done. The first is riskier since you are working in unknown territory. If it's truly fixable, ignoring it will not make it go away.
- Learn to know the difference, do what's required and get on with the next step.
Posting on the WordPressTutorials.com forums and reading the amazing backlog on SemiologicPro's Community has answered a tremendous number of WordPress blog questions. It also has brought up a lot more. When you stamp on a fire, sparks fly. Some of those sparks are bound to start a new fire. Now, I've changed to Typepad. The learning just goes on. . .
Long years ago, the Alcoholics Anonymous adopted the Serenity Prayer. It's something I grew up with, hearing, understanding, even incorporating it into a cross-stitch sampler that hangs, to this day, in my sister's home.
As I was literally pulling at my hair this weekend over web technology, my husband gently reminded me of it. Step back, breathe, consider. This version may bring you some peace in the New Year, too, if you are struggling with computer or marketing problems:
and without which the system will not work,
Courage to hack the code or customize the CSS when it's possible, and
Wisdom to know the difference and direct my efforts where they will be profitable.
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