Remember...
Better to believe too much... .
Than nothing at all.
Master Chen Hai Yang
Things at work have been quite hectic this week following the bushfires around Junee on New Year's Day. So far the tally is 7 houses lost, with huge stock and fodder losses, machinery and sheds. Those poor farmers have come through the last 5 years of drought only to have lost everything to the fires. I take my hat off to people on the land. There's lots of appeals and raffles and all sorts of fund-raisers going on around the district, and we all try to help out where we can.
I've had lots of problems with the website at work. We're trying to get all the information about meetings and help available on the site so people have easy access to all the information, but the software has been very unsympathetic towards our efforts. We use NetObjects Fusion to work on the site, and it's not friendly when it comes to multiple users, but on Friday I finally solved the problem and (fingers crossed) we'll have no more problems. It all had to do with how we initially opened the site: in particular, the path of the file. The original setup was through a W drive that not all computers at work have set up. When we've installed NetObjects on other computers and people have gone to access the main file, if the correct path wasn't followed then the whole site had to be fixed up (stretching lines to 100% width has been the main problem), but the menus were very touchy too. Since changing the path to the main file, I've managed to get it working properly on the two computers and everything is working good again. Publishing is now only a 15 minute exercise, where with the previous settings it took two hours to republish. I feel like I've overcome a huge hurdle.
I wasn't overly impressed with the NetObjects package when I first started using it. I'm used to hand-coding all my web pages and therefore having total control over the design. NetObjects does everything for you with an editor similar to a word editor. It's difficult to implement forms and search boxes unless you want to pay for add-ons for the program. That got my back up. You buy a program, and pay good money, only to have to keep paying out for things that should come with the original package. There is a way to insert code and I'm learning about that, but it's a big learning curve and I'm not getting alot of help. I have the manual and the help files to teach me so it's also a slow process.
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