Wish I Knew a Webdesigner Who Worked for Beer

Had too many other things to do this weekend to get much done. I want to put up a second site with an angry tone to it (to see if that attracts a bit more interest), but the templates for the first site just kept screwing up on me (not really knowing HTML probably doesn't help). So I had to spend the past couple of days looking for a good template, downloading it and then looking at it with my HTML editor as you can't get the info about how easy the template is to work with just by looking at the samples you're given (as they're primarily image files and not the actual HTML code). So that ate up huge amounts of time. In theory, when I get the new site up, I'll be able to easily alter each one, but it'd be a helluva lot easier if I had someone who could knew HTML and worked cheap. Next weekend, I've got to rip that lawnmower apart, so I can get it ready for use as a testbed (once I can find some engine plans I like).

In the meantime, if I get some time during the week, I'll have to go over the Doble stuff I've downloaded and see what I can make of all of it. Now, however, I'm just going to veg out for a bit and then go to bed.

Page Updates

Had to finally say the heck with the file that I was going to upload, as I spent close to two hours waiting for it to get uploaded and nothing happened. I've still managed to get some fairly big changes to the site done, however. I added some more information to the "Enhancements" page, as well as links to the blueprints on the "Boiler" page, and another question and response on the "FAQ" page. Finally, since Matt Mahoney, of Vancouver Wa was kind enough to make a donation to the project (I'm up to almost $60 now), I added him to the "Supporters" page. Now, I think that I'll get ready for bed. It's amazing how tiresome it is doing web stuff (and I'm using pre-made templates, that I modify and do lots of cutting and pasting in). I'd hate to do it for a living (though I'd happily accept the paycheck, as I'm sure it's bigger than mine).

Hit the Mother Load!

I recently found this site, which has high quality scans of Doble's papers. I've downloaded the most important ones, and have started going over them, but it's going to take me a long time to read them all. I'm trying to upload a RAR archive of the boiler blueprints to my website, but it's taking ages to upload. So far, it's been 1/2 an hour and it's still not done. I can't even make any other changes to the site while this is going on, so I'm sitting here in frustration as I can't do much else in relation to the site until that get's done. Grr.