I have been having trouble with iWeb, Apple’s rather nice little web-design thing.  Basically, it can’t remember what bits of my website I’ve updated and uploaded, so each time I upload the latest update, it uploads everything I’ve done since about March - taking about half an hour, and increasing daily - even if I’m only correcting a spelling.  This, as you can imagine, is getting to be a pain in a place where the sun doesn’t shine.

 

Yesterday and today, I have had conversations with people who know about iWeb - an Apple help person over the ‘phone and a ‘Genius’ in an Apple store.  I have tried all the various things they suggested, none of which improved matters, but which have served to point to the problem.  It isn’t my ISP at fault, as I thought it might be, and it isn’t my Mac misbehaving somehow.  Instead, it is iWeb itself that’s causing the problem...  And it isn’t just a simple thing like a corrupted .plist file.  The problem seems to be that iWeb is intended for ‘hobby’ use...  The only trouble is, I tend to be a tad obsessive about my hobbies.  To keep a long story short, it can’t cope with the demands I’m placing on it.

 

So, I am probably going to make a completely fresh start.  I am hoping that I can keep all this lot (the blog, the old blog, the galleries, articles, etc, in place, but not update them.  The new site, once I write it, will be substantially the same as this one, but smaller (obviously) and hopefully a bit simpler.  I’ll post the URL here, and anywhere else I can think of, once I’ve got it up and running.