Old Bones Family Research of New England: "New and Improved" Web Site

Did you ever think about that odd marketing phrase, "New and Improved". My question is this: How can it be improved already if it's new?

I'll leave that question to those who stay up late at night pondering philosophical questions and various koans! Koans: I learned that word from working crossword puzzles and this is the first time I've had a chance to use it. Merriam-Webster defines a koan as a "paradox to be meditated upon that is used to train Zen Buddhist monks to abandon ultimate dependence on reason and to force them into gaining sudden intuitive enlightenment." Pretty good, huh!

But I write this blog to brag a little about remodeling, renewing, improving and restyling my web site, Old Bones Genealogy of New England. It's still with Go Daddy. Sometimes I'm happy about that and other times...they really set me off! But it's paid for until the middle of this year, so I'll continue to give them the benefit of the doubt. The singular reason I give them a lot of slack is that they ANSWER THE PHONE! And the support personnel were all educated in North America. In other words, they understand me and I understand them!

But there were a few wrinkles, a few roadblocks, a few frustrations. I never knew that I was working all this time with "version 6". Version 6 is apparently one of the worst bits of software that Go Daddy had released on an unsuspecting customer base. I found it galactically frustrating. (Is "galactically" a word???) Whenever I tried to change the copy on any particluar page, it was a struggle of mind over technology! When I tried to change a font, the color changed. When I tried to put the color back to where I wanted it, either the whole text box would disappear or the background color would change. And that's just for starters.

Here's the good news: The junk they called Version 6 has been replaced with Version 7! Are you as ecstatic as I am? I knew that 6 was junk and the jury's out on 7. The bad news was that I had to pick a completely new template and rebuild the whole thing from scratch. I'm not sure if I got every element in there that I had before, but I'm sure I'll be tweaking this thing into the wee hours of many mornings!

All I want to do is continue my research and help as many people as I can with theirs. Thus the blog, the website and a lot of time putting together genealogy programs for whoever would like me to conduct a program for their institution.

So to make me feel a little bit better, please take a look at Old Bones Genealogy of New England. Let me know what you think. And be nice!!