This is less a tip of the week, and more an apology.
Back when I started my site, I didn’t have the money to hire anyone. So, I designed my site myself. You can probably tell just by looking at it.
I set out to design a beautiful, sleek, muscular stallion. Instead, I ended up designing a camel. Not a pretty camel either. Wait… are there pretty camels?
Anyway, I now have camel of a website. It’s ugly. But, I built it alone, and I alone know how to ride it.
From time to time, someone will offer to re-build my website for me. I can now afford to purchase a stallion. These web designers promise to deliver a stallion.
But, in my experience, many of these web designers simply take camels, slap a saddle on the camel, and announce… “ta-dah! Now you have a stallion!” Or, worse, they take the camel, kill the camel, can’t find a stallion and then ask, “Will you be paying by check, or with cash?”
So, I plod along, learning as I go.
Unfortunately, I run into trouble sometimes. I am an army of one. It takes me a while to fix things.
Yesterday, a hacker invaded my site and sent some semi-inappropriate messages to many of my students. Don’t you love it when you are trying to build something to improve the world in a small way, and then, some selfish moron comes over to burn the whole thing down?
Thankfully, the problem is solved now. It only took me about 15 hours to fix. And, the good people of WP Engine are back at work on it again today.
Sometimes, I suppose the best thing to do is laugh. Yesterday, as my students waited for me to solve the problem, I posted a video on my site to keep them happy. I needed some cheering up yesterday. This video did the trick. Maybe it will make you happy as well.
Have a Happy (seagull free) Saturday!
Dwane Thomas
