Mariposa Web Site Design

Sunday, November 1, 2009
I redesigned Deanie's Mariposa web site using a template from FreeCSSTemplates.  The base template for this blog is from there.  The designer does some great work.

I am not sold on Mecca Hosting but Deanie choose them because they said they supported the Mac web publishing programs.

I will say that I hate their site builder program.  The templates they have are difficult to customize and for the most part, not that attractive.  I also noticed that they seem to load slowly.

I had to rewrite two pages in html.  Luckily the program does allow imbeded HTML code into the templates.

The last straw was that the contact template page it generated had two glaring faults.  One, it just didn't work.  No email arrived at the destination even though i tested the address multiple times in a different program.  Two, the "thank you" screen after the submit came up with the default options and the not the customization I had done.  Instead of butterflies it came up with smiling couples.  We are not running a dating service!  There was no way to customize this Thank you page.

So I junked the site builder pages all together and rewrote the whole thing.

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