Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

All sorted, the Empire's got its wheels back.

It appears the /var directory was 95% full and so the service wasn't starting.

Riiiight .... but it's fixed.

When it comes to support, for me it's simple:
1] Can I instantly go online to the host and click a "Live Support" button and type things to somebody
2] Do they fix it without asking me complex questions
3] Does it turn out to be their system/not something I'm doing wrong
4] Does it then get magically fixed, without me discovering I need to do something difficult/restore backups/answer multiple questions about databases and logins and passwords (all of which, by now, are exceedingly intertwined and complex)

If I can get from 1-4 in under 40 minutes and it's resolved, that's a result for me

Online Support Person you type to is brilliant as you're not glued to the uncomfortable telephone, trapped... but can freely wander around between responses/while they're fixing things.

Solar
Spotted this article on solar in the DM http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2007372/Going-solar--definitive-guide-turning-home-power-station.html

PasturesNew

Right... just finished with support. I'd decided, since I was up already, to update all my blogs to v3.1.3 - only I had an error message that only the host could 'fix'.

They're all now running v3.1.3

So now I need to install a new theme on the lot - and make the tweaks and get them under control. So that's my Sunday written off.

michaels

Congratulations, sounds like an amazing week. I will be in SE today so I will picture you designing away whenever I see a bit of run-down riverside.

Put me down for a couple of dresses if you ever do children's sizes (it is my brother's wedding at the end of July and they would be ideal...)

If you have a moment I would be fascinated to know how the industry works - are designers 'hot' for a while before the 'next big thing' comes along (I guess a bit like the current pop music industry) or is it possible to build up a brand and following that lasts over years or even decades - or is that only possible if you are part of a big luxury brand with deep marketing pockets?

fc123 wrote: »

I think I missed a chunk of thread but caught up on the last 3 pages.
Been a bit of a week *understated*

PasturesNew

I think it'd be easier to 'capture' a current age group, then age disgracefully with them, to get the brand. But you need to make sure your audience are younger than you, so the business/you outlives the brand, so can be sold off when you retire.... rather than your customers all suddenly wanting old lady cardigans when you're 10 years off retirement

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think it'd be easier to 'capture' a current age group, then age disgracefully with them, to get the brand. But you need to make sure your audience are younger than you, so the business/you outlives the brand, so can be sold off when you retire.... rather than your customers all suddenly wanting old lady cardigans when you're 10 years off retirement

I'm old enough for a bus pass and I will never want an old gentleman's cardigan!:p (But I wish they made proper jeans with stretchy waists!)

GDB2222

misskool wrote: »

well done mrs gdb. what did she qualify in?

She's now a qualified, but jobless Speech & Language Therapist with a degree from UCL. The main problem is that there are loads more SLTs qualifying each year than there are jobs for, so I suppose she'll have to consider doing something completely unrelated.

PasturesNew

My head's in a spin... trying to alter the code for my sites - and I'm sure I did this before, my notes said I did... so where did it go? Then I put it in the wrong files, now on the second domain and thought "Doh". So now I have to put it in the right files on this domain, then go back to the other one to correct it.... although having said that, it came out OK on the other one... so I might do that one again last.

I need to get them all identical, to make it easier to keep on top of them all.

And... I'm sure I am working with two different copies of the same "latest version", probably supplied by different hosts. Can't worry about that now. It's just there are a few things named slightly differently, which then makes my notes not quite right on half where I've noted for my records where I'm making the changes.

Maybe I didn't put the code in this website at all, maybe it was the other (almost identical) one. It's so hard when you've got one theme of ideas, with a slightly different twist, on several domains, with different hosts.... kind of lose track. My house will definitely have a big whiteboard on the wall

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

She's now a qualified, but jobless Speech & Language Therapist with a degree from UCL. The main problem is that there are loads more SLTs qualifying each year than there are jobs for, so I suppose she'll have to consider doing something completely unrelated.

That's one of the things that's wrong with the educational system. You can choose a course, but nobody tells you how many jobs there are and where they are, so you can't base your choice on whether there's a shortage/oversupply in your area even.

At least if you did something and knew up front, you'd at least be deciding to do something because you wanted to - even though you'd not get a job in it.

What do Speech and Language Therapists do? And why can't we make chavs read out a Job Hunters' Charter in clear English as part of their signing on process each fortnight?

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

I'm old enough for a bus pass and I will never want an old gentleman's cardigan!:p (But I wish they made proper jeans with stretchy waists!)

Jeans are a nightmare. Because I have no sensation in the skin/flesh in my midriff jeans often cut/graze me with stiffness and I don't realise. I've given up on jeans these days The one good thing about jeggings...which are now gone, is that they made boot cut jeans a likes with stretch as well as the obscene iunlkess you are under 25 and under a size 12.

I'd like an old gentle mans cardigan though. I love a slouchy cardi.

PasturesNew

I think we're onto something.... saggy cardis - the future!