Rogue Idea

finally moved again. this time was the worst time.  i have moved to dreamhost and while the hosting is working things are different in here than in other hosting places i’ve been with.  i cant find a way to upload stuff using the web browser, i gotta use ftp. which just confused the hell outta me at first.  then i had to set up my database here, and their control panel is so annoying.  it doesnt letyou go into phpmyadmin until after you have to create a databse using their little form first.  so you cant create databases in phpmyadmin, you gotta do it in their form or else theres not even a link to phpmyadmin at all.  and you also cant create users without creating a database, after you create that user, THEN you can go find the database list , and then find the users allowed, and then edit their permissions.  also the mysql management is under this section in their control panel called ‘Goodies’.  ..what the HELL is “goodies”??  databases are not goodies, they are databases.  i think dreamhost took their little ‘dream’ theme a bit too far. 

 after some frustrations i was finally able to import my database information into here.  and for some reason i finally decided to work on my css and make the links appear the correct color in IE.  apparently it was working just because i had some code right before the a attribute and it was in comments? i dont know what was wrong, i didnt know what that was either so i just deleted it and now its working fine.  so now my site looks much less ugly in the obvious way in IE as it did before with all the links being blue.  this took like 5 seconds once i actually sat down and decided to fix it.  then i tried to fix the thing where the title of the post is overlapping the time and date on the front pages in IE, but then some crazy stuff happened.  and now…there are thees little diamond shapes (in FF) and boxes (in IE) followed by  question mark every time i try to type two spaces in a row.  why did this happen? i dont know.  *sigh*

hopefully i wont have to move hosts again.  but i have some other ones listed in mind incase i do need to move.  with all this stuff lately the only good thing is that each time i move it takes less time cause im so used to the process now.