By Slanted Light

Just a quick heads up - my Pros website palelyloitering is no more... emptymirrors has been kindly hosting it for many years, but unfortunately her provider hiked their prices too far for anyone reasonable, and so she's letting her websites go - and sadly palelyloitering has gone with them...

I meant to post before it happened, but what with everything I took my eye off the dates, then I lost Josey's heads-up, and now... well, now it's too late.

I do have the website on my own computer, of course, but I've also not had the software to update it now for years either - that's been another ongoing project. I liked the format I was using, and the way I knew I could navigate around it to find things, but... well, the web has moved on since I started it, so I need to think about the best thing to do with it. Move it to an lj-comm of its own? Find another way of hosting the website? Hmmmn - must think (faster! more!) Any thoughts and ideas welcome. *g*

But for now... no more palelyloitering...

So... having a lovely shiny new laptop, and having my files and photos etc safely stored and moved across, the next thing I have to do is re-download the various programmes I've been using. That's fine, except for the programme I use for my palelyloitering website, which was a very old and naughty version of DreamWeaver... Really I needed to deal with the fact that some aspects of it weren't functional any more, so this is perhaps a good kick for doing that, but... waaah - I can't afford to buy a shiny new version of DreamWeaver at all! Which brings me to my question... *g*

Does anyone use a DreamWeaver equivalent for organising and uploading and all their website? One that's nice and free and user-friendly? I do want to be able to access the code and so on, so that I can see what it's doing when I need to, but I liked being able to write pages without the code too (is that called the WYSIWYG function?) I've googled and found things like Aptana and KompoZer and BlueGriffon - two of those seem to me Firefox-oriented, which I don't use by choice, and the other doesn't have WYSIWYG, but perhaps the former shouldn't matter? Anyway - if anyone's got any suggestions, they'd be greatly appreciated, cos I'm slow enough at getting the poor old website updated and all as it is... (I wish I was clever enough to be able to make it searchable, too, but I think that's an entirely different thing, from poking around about it a year or so ago...)

Help? *g*

So, I decided to expand my zine compilation mission slightly - I've included the summaries/blurbs for zines given at the various distributor sites. I'm assuming they won't mind, its kind of free publicity. (If anyone knows differently, do tell me!) So that whether a zine has been recced or not, if there's any information on it at all to help decide whether or not to buy it, then its in the list. Actually two lists. I've done anthologies and novels separately. Hope that sounds okay to everyone who was interested...

And this morning's useless information for anyone who's not me?
It was -23C at the cabin this morning, which sounds alot colder than -10F. I'd forgotten the joys of static electricity.