Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Godaddy website tonight!

Another whole week has gone and loads has happened. I found out whilst looking for a freeware shopping cart for my new business website which I built using GoDaddy`s website tonight package that it is possible to write to the admin file of the account. While I am no expert its obvious to me this must threfore be insecure so anyway I contact Godaddy who help me to secure my Linux site but cannot do anything with my Bsoaps site ( on website tonight) so I have closed it down and now waiting for an authorisation code to move elsewhere. Spent days checking out ecommerce packages and came to the conclusion I will sign up with 1&1 since not only are the "green" apparently but most of the ethical companies seem to use them and also they have a great package for small companies which is only about £6 a month which is very good so going to try them out next...........assuming ofcourse I am able to get away from GoDaddy! I have checked out some forums and it seems that might not be as easy as it should be but we will see. Even if they give me the codes to authorise moving the domain it could still take me 48 hours to get up and running. Anyway tonight I intend to set up the bsoaps.co.uk site on 1&1 and then just move the godaddy site as soon as I can. Unfortunately the soap labels ( finally recieved last saturday) have bsoaps.com on them which is a bit of a cock-up to say the least. If I can get both sites pointing at the 1&1 account tho it wont matter and will be much better really since it will mean anyone searching for me should find me. Boiler man is coming saturday and we still have a skip outside the house waiting to be filled and it will be in his way! Hoepfully he will still be able to put it in without moaning too much about lack of access. I will finally get my labelling gun saturday to add batch codes and BBEs to my soaps so I will actually be able to start trading one week later than originally intended but its not such a bad result in the end. I am quite excited about the whole affair tho need to quit my day job to concentrate on my own company and cannot afford to yet! Also have had several quotes for getting a professional website built - cheapest is £1000 + VAT so enrolling tomorrow/saturday depending how it goes for a course at local tech to learn to build them myself. Means by about this time next year I should be able to do my own website design rather than rely on packages and templates. Whole thing has become very exciting. Its so weird tho that my idea to make hand made natural soap has escalated to the extent I now have a company and am about to learn to build websites. Ofcourse if ok at it I will also be able to do other peoples and make a living from website design. Weird year this has been I have to say. And still 3-4 months left..........whatever will happen next? My mate (currently living in Salisbury ) is moving back to the midlands too so that is great cos we will get to see each other much more often - I feel the pub calling.............

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