New web page
I’m a do-it-yourself type of gal. I wouldn’t consider myself cheap but I am frugal. After looking at my old web site and dreading the re-do, I decided that since my blog was so easy to manage I would change my web site to a free-ware program. The in-house software I used for the last one was cumbersome and riddled with oodles of passwords, impossible to remember as they all required different formats. I also wanted to use a different host, as the prior one was slow and many companies had banned it’s servers; it was hard to access at the best of times and slower than molasses.
I initially chose Joomla because of it’s greater capabilities over WordPress, but hit some glitches with regards to a newly released version and older templates. I made a beautiful template that hopefully I’ll get to use at some point. But in the end, WordPress is so amazing and so simple I decided to us it. And the program I purchased to make templates easily converted my Joomla template to a WordPress template making the transition seamless.
In the end even with the costs of a new web server, a program to make templates and a few purchased pictures, the cost of a new web page (that I own!) is less than 1/10 the cost of having it made. And it only took me 3 days (would have taken 1 day if it wasn’t for the problems trying to get Joomla working!) to get it up and running.
If you get a chance, check out the new web page, www.thetartanpie.com. The web page has more information about what we do and the products we make. I save the ramblings for this site!