I've discovered that using Word for writing my Journal entries is messing up my HTML for my online copy (weblog). I read recently that Word changes some things into special Windows-only code. When that code is copied and pasted into an HTML page it's not easily visible by a Windows user, but when it page get's put online sometimes it won't show up correctly anymore. While I was reviewing my website one day I noticed question marks in places where I knew that I hadn't placed them. I checked the page on The W3C Markup Validator and discovered just what I had read about. It wasn't too difficult to straighten out the errors on that page, but there's no way that I'd have the time to go through each and every page to eliminate the errors. When I get my database-driven website finished it should be much easier to maintain those little details because there should be less actual HTML pages to modify.
I've been working on getting a database-driven website put together. I've successfully set up a basic home page to display recent blog entries and I have an administrative page for entering a personal profile, updating passwords, and submitting a blog entry. Unfortunately, this hasn't transferred online well. There have been difficulties getting the PHP "includes" function to work. I opened a ticket with my web host, but unfortunately they are giving little answers that should work and then they close the ticket as "resolved" without confirming that my problem has actually been resolved so then I have to reopen the ticket. Ok... so it's not really a big deal for me to reopen it any more that it is to submit an update for the ticket, but the thing that burns me is that they just assume that everything is ok as soon as they send their reply. Maybe that's policy, but it still sucks.