4: WWW= Who What Where

For weeks my writing has consisted of html and CSS. The company I work for is launching a new website and an online shopping cart.


While my personal writing is suffering, my brain is working on overdrive! I am learning so much about style sheets, php, dynamic run time, blah blah blah... seriously, I've learned a lot, but I'm also very very lost! I do not claim to be an IT person, I have no desire to become an IT person... however, I happen to work for a pretty small (employee wise) company and I do 80% of the web work. I am the only one that has taken an html class, and I thought I could handle the install of a shopping cart.


BAH! Was I wrong.


But FINALLY, Monday, I found out it's not entirely my problem, or my lack of understanding. I called tech support for the shopping cart and they said I had hosting issues and that I needed "dynamic loading" enabled and our host had to do it. So I called the hosting company, and they're pretty smart people. About an hour after being on the phone with the hosting tech guy... he says it's not a hosting issue, it's the shopping cart's issue... back to square one.

We've decided on a fix - instead of trying to edit and fix, we're starting from scratch. A big issue is the whole Windows hosting vs. Linux... so we're going to fix that. And right when I'm ready to start I receive a phone call from a client saying he wanted to purchase an item from our online shopping site, but the site isn't working. UGGGHHHH! I feel like Charlie Brown and the football known as the Internet/Web Site keeps getting yanked out from before me as I go to kick it!

I've been working on the new issue for about 3 hours now to no avail. I want to cry... and I've learned another new phrase: "Syntax error in ORDER BY clause". Anyone know what that means, because I sure don't!