Boy, Was That a Mistake
Boy, was that a mistake!
When I first published a website on the internet, I was guessing at most of the configurations of my site. I didn't find a lot of help on the net; I think that was a hangover from the DOS geeks who seemed to have very little patience or interest in helping newbees.
After about four years of publishing my site which had transformed into a magazine, I suspected the size of the print for the essays was a tad shy of the size which was readable by many folks who only have iphones or computers with small screens.
So, I increased the font size from 24 to 36 on the new essays and promised myself to change the published essays to the larger font…some day.
Several years later, some day arrived. I was two months ahead on my essays.
Holy crap! Some folks had hundreds of essays in the smaller font size…including moi. About a week later, I had completed the changes. While changing the font size for the body of the essays, I also increased the size of the titles and also tried to standardize other elements.
I'd say it averaged about five minutes per essay, but some due to unexpected problems required up to an hour. When the time came to publish the newly updated pages, I was faced with an inconvenience I've been faced with for a couple of years. Although the site would publish new pages or pages with changes, it did not show them on the software as having been published. In other words, for the last couple of years each time I publish, I must publish again pages which I have already published. This caused the process to last over two hours. An inconveniece but what else do I have to do?
After several publishing efforts followed by problems with pages that sometimes required the information to be transferred to a new page and republished...yeah, the whole process was…well, a travail.
I got it done…more or less.
And what have we learned from this little experience? DON'T KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD!
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