Amazed at the effort behind a web site.

After transferring everything over, and redesigning the sites and such, I'm again amazed at just how much work and time-consuming details are involved in getting a good-sized site up. Goodness. It just eats up the time.

I guess it's worse for me since I'm an eternal perfectionist and can futz forever, but even so it's a real challenge. Trying to deal with PERL, PHP, mySQL, MovableType, the browsers, Mac and Windows, mail settings, domain name stuff, nameservers, and on and on and on.

I don't think I'm going to be redoing this one for quite a while. Will add on to it, but I think I'm going to let well enough alone.

I must say that the software is starting to get very good and even well documented. Movable Type is very well done, and with good documentation and online support as well. So is the forum software, Invision Power Board. My new domain hosts, ipowerweb.com are also pretty good, with extensive user control over the settings and good help. I'd recommend any of them. I also use easyDNS.com for domain name management. They're really good as well.

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