Exhaustion!!!! (Webpage, Kompozer, Filezilla)

exhaustion

Click on the above link to see a whole page of photos from Flickr on "exhaustion", which happens to be how I presently feel. My professor suggested that I try to create my search engine and my GRAZR widget on a separate webpage and then link to my main webpage, in order to avoid conflicts in code. Thus, I opened a new page in Kompozer, and inserted the code to my Google Search Engine, which should have showed up like the one on the sidebar of this blog (except without being cut off). Nothing whatsoever showed. I tried to publish anyway, and all that came up was a blank page (which, I assume is not surprising, given the preview).

However, when I saved my personal webpage to my desktop, the desktop copy still contained the code, and both the search engine and GRAZR widget showed up. Thus, it seemed to me I might simply have a publishing problem. I tried to publish again from FileZilla and it worked!!!!! Something worked without taking 3 hours, how exciting!!!! I will not try to fix what is not presently broken. In other words, it might be better for me to have these items on a separate page linked to my main page - certainly it would be more sophisticated - but I don't think I should touch it now.

At the same time, I am still worried, because I need to do the last segment of the assignment, which is the external style sheets for the Thoreau. I will do that on a separate page, but then I will need to link it to my main page, which means resaving and republishing my main page. Will I be able to do this again without losing the search engine and the GRAZR widget? It is so hard to tell, because sometimes things don't show up in Kompozer, but do show up when I save to desktop. I think the code is still in Kompozer, but lots of items don't show on the page in Kompozer, so I don't know if I will lose them or not.

I am also running short on time. I still need to finish grading 50 midterm exams, I will need to post twice on 4 books, which I need to finish reading, and I have to make time to do the Thoreau external stylesheet, as well as be prepared to redo a few elements of my main page in case I do lose them in resaving and republishing.

I have learned a lot in this class, but there is a lot I still don't understand about both formatting a web page and publishing it. It is nice to see a completed project, regardless of how unsophisticated, but it is frustrating getting to that point.