There’s been an unfortunate snag of having that shiny new homepage. But before I get to that, I managed to talk to Ismael, my contact, who is doing the work for me (about the whole “I’ll do the editing” thing).
It was actually the way I had assumed. He would do a javascript thing where I can edit the page, just by drag and drop.
But this is the problem. It’s not secure. Anyone who goes on the new homepage, would be allowed to mess with it. And I cannot take that risk (especially if someone manages to get a keylogger in).
His suggestion, is to move my domain away from Arvixe. The reason why he can’t even do another script to act as an override (to allow a username/password thing), is because of cPanel. So he suggested that I move to a service called ‘Weebly‘. The reason, is because they have an interactive website builder(drag and drop right onto your pages). I will no longer have to use KompoZer because of it. He also mentioned that they have outstanding service, and protection from DDoS attacks.
This sounds really, really nice, right? But as we all know, folks… of what happens when something “sounds too good to be true”, yes?
Well, all of that really nice and freakin’ awesome stuff, isn’t cheap. Infact, if I was to do this… it will cost $30 more a year than what I’m paying currently. As most of you know, even paying $60/yr to Arvixe was (and still is) questionable. It’s just three blogs, and a homepage. That’s it. And… it just feels a waste of money to pay $90/yr for this new hoster. Yes, that’s how much it’ll cost me. Yes, it would be awesome to just drag and drop images (or even Youtube videos) right on my homepage, and not need to use KompoZer anymore. It would save me a lot of time, and it would fling my web experience into the future.
BUT AGAIN… I don’t use this website for the potential of what it could be used for. I keep reaching out for “then why are you doing it?”, and my answer would be… “I have no choice, because there’s no cheap, but good hoster out there that will do what I want.”
What I really need, is a replacement for KompoZer; one that supports embedded things like Youtube videos. Yet, it also needs to be a visual webpage editor, and have a user friendly interface.
Years ago when I had TheBeaverDam.com, I used a program called Visual Page. I got a copy of it from my aunt, and I loved that program to bits. Sadly, it supports up to HTML4 (which was the HTML format of the late 90’s to the early 2000’s). Now it’s HTML5. Also, it doesn’t work now (if that’s not obvious enough).
So I’m stuck with KompoZer for the time being.
Ismael did suggest that I at least try out weebly for free (there is a free option) and see if I like it. I will do this, but I still doubt I’ll favor this for paying $90/yr. I will let you guys know one of these days, of what I think about Weebly.
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EDIT: I didn’t even bother making an account. Screw Weebly. Using a visual webpage editor to change the links and then upload via FileZilla, isn’t that big of an issue.
I’m NOT…repeat…NOT paying that much a year. That’s too much, for how little content this site has. If it was a business site? If it was a store? Then yes! Yes I would! Because it would have a purpose then.
I’ve shifted to just finding a replacement KompoZer. I’m not moving away from Arvixe. There’s no reason to. My site is up pretty much every day. No complaints at all, compared to back before the server move (and angry was my co-owner).
I actually wish I could ask angry (since he’s the one that suggested I use KompoZer). Unfortunately, goppend, his friend, hasn’t been on Steam for three days.
I asked the Minecraft Forum for help. Maybe they’ll be nice and lend me a hand.