We returned from our week in Connecticut ready to develop a
website for the Fredericksburg Regional
Genealogical Society (FRGS).
We made this decision following the September meeting when the plea for
website help remained unheeded.
I researched the best (and affordable) website development software
for MAC. Since we would be paying
for this ourselves we had to keep the cost within reason. I found that SandVox
was highly rated and at a reasonable price.
We purchased and downloaded the software, and what fun we
had all
day yesterday designing and populating the site. It was no wonder I had a slight
headache last night. I just couldn’t let it go – I kept thinking of additional
information to put on the site that might be helpful to Virginia genealogy researchers.
We applied for a FRGSVA@gmail.com
account and that is now live. I
started a blog on the website – such fun!!
We then applied to Rootsweb for hosting space. That was
easy, and the return message was that it would take three to five days for a response.
Actually, it was only about three hours when we had a
message back from Rootsweb with our User Name and path into their server. Although we should have waited until
morning … we couldn’t help ourselves. We had to see if we could get the site up
and running. What a thrill that would be after all this time!!
We carefully put in the path as designated. Clicked continue and watched the screen
populate with the ftp connection.
Ah, it is wonderful when it works.
NOT. Error
message. We retyped the password,
carefully checked the ID, tried different variations. Same message.
Finally, crestfallen, we wrote to Rootsweb explaining the
problem. We also wrote to SandVox.
SandVox immediately replied with helpful information, but it looks like
the problem is at Rootsweb. The
files are uploaded successfully, but the download from Rootsweb fails.
And so we wait …
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