Friday. What a long week. A bunch of appointments. Two of which seemed wondrously promising, actually turned out to be real doozies. The one I mentioned earlier- the other occurred yesterday. After talking for an hour, I told him my price and he says what he wants to do is have me work on commission so I would get a cut of all business done through the Website. He said this would be more lucrative for me than if he just pays me for the Website. Yeah, right. I walked away knowing I wasted my hour.

I have another meeting today. My hope is this one works out. I can’t have three bad meetings in one week, can I?

Things, Like Network Solutions in the Dark

And I want to continue spewing negativity at Network Solutions. I FINALLY got a call back over another issue I had… Each time I tried to do the autoinstall for themes or plugins or upload media, I got the error: Failed to connect to FTP Server. The fine folks at Network Solutions kept asking me to reenter my ftp information, insisting I was making a typo. I wanted to scream, “I AM NOT AN IDIOT!” So anyway, I surfed around the Network Solutions account page and found Reset File Permissions (Web Hosting > FTP & Content Publishing> Reset File Permissions) clicked it, and immediately WordPress accepted the FTP information and I was uploading just fine.

If you want to know how I resolved the inability to install WordPress… I just waited 10 hours. Turns out when it says, “It may take 10 minutes for WordPress to install completely” they really mean 10 hours. I totally recommend using Dreamhost. They may not have free phone tech support but at least everything works right so you never need to call them.