I’ve been having lots of fun lately. I’m working on a new website, and I’m determined to do it as much as possible in CSS. I am really delighted with how CSS handles everything. I’m just hoping I can keep it compatible across enough browsers. I love the way my current layout is starting to look for the new site, kind of a three column look, but one column is nested, so when it runs out the other column will use the extra width available. It’s so much fun learning this technique.

I just can’t believe the mood Ariel woke up in today. Quite intensely NEEDING to play, and in ways she normally doesn’t. Just had to have me playing with her, or she wasn’t happy. This is one of the delights of working at home. DH and I took her to the Children’s Museum, and let her play there. She loved it. They didn’t have much that we don’t already have, but it was a chance for her to run around with other kids. She’s in such a curious, exploratory mood today. I really hope it lasts.

Finally got things going with Aweber, and I’m very happy I did. I’ve been getting some very supportive comments from people even as they unsubscribe, simply appreciating my efforts and understanding the situation. I’m just glad to have this done and over with… please? I just hope my resubscribe requests don’t generate anything bad. All in all, it’s a tough situation, and I can only hope people will continue to understand that I’m doing my best to do the right thing.

Well, I’ve made the transfer of my list. Still waiting for AWeber to send the resubscribe notices. Once that’s done, I should be in pretty good shape, I hope. It’s been a frustrating experience. Wish I could say it had been a learning experience, but I just don’t see how I could have prevented this from happening. Just call it a part of being online, I guess. I really want to figure out how to get the RSS feed going. I think I’m going to look at that for the discussion boards too. Be nice to be able to encourage more people to come on over, even if not many people use RSS yet. It strikes me as quite a promising technology.

I made what will probably be a rather painful change to my newsletter today; I changed list management companies. This really was necessary, unfortunately. I don’t know how, but a virus got hold of my CONFIRMATION email address, and was sending email to it, thereby adding people to my list who never received email from me. I find it to be quite a distressing situation, and finally came to the conclusion that the only way to stop it was to change companies, a possibility I had been considering for a while anyway. I went with AWeber, as they are quite a good company from everything I have heard, and I can add as many lists or autoresponders as I would like. Seems like a great deal. I’m trying hard not to think overmuch about the numbers of subscribers I will lose from this move, but at least the list will be clean. I hope I never have to do this again.