Regular visitors of this hapless webpage may have noticed a strange series of changes in appearance yesterday, none of them improving. Unfortunately our wiz of a web designer has moved on to greener pastures and left the child to do the man’s job. I admit, like all children, I looked at the shiny red button and thought, “I wonder what would happen if I press this”…
Famous last words.
Allow me to be the first to teach you this life lesson, if you haven’t already learned it: nothing good ever happens when you touch the shiny red button. No marching bands arrive, and no ballerinas in gauzy display come to adorn you. Instead what happens is that you turn your beautifully designed web page into a webpage that looks exactly like everyone else’s, and half your information becomes inaccessible.
I spent most of yesterday on the phone with our host server to see if the untainted page could be restored. I was assured that with a little patience the site could look like it did on January 10th. Imagine my delight! Just 5 days ago! I was as hopeful as a young bride, dreaming of the big event. Except it was restored to January 10th 2008. See those pesky drop down menus? (well if you’re using ie you don’t even see those, sigh) They were an experimental phase that we abandoned…sigh…oh where is my lovely bar across the top…
We here at worth a dam have no shame. We will beg, plead, cajole, flatter, and entice to get the things that we need to take care of our beavers. After sweet talking my Utah tech support into nearly two hours of support and wooing him with promises of glowing letters to his supervisor (which I honored), I heard a rumor that a beaver regular is actually an IT guy! I swooped in my batman cape to implore his help. He very kindly picked up my handkerchief and if all goes well he might help us fix things again.
In the mean time, welcome back. We missed you.
