Website Hijinks, a.k.a. technology is great when it works

Once upon a time, if you weren't doing merchandising on your site, you didn't need SSL. But I bought it anyway. Without any reminders from my host, I discovered the SSL had run out when I went onto my site and got a scary warning from Chrome about how the site had malware, and prompting me to go back to "safety." Great. So I paid up for another year. 

Next day, I made the mistake of updating my Adobe software. It broke my website. More pop-ups, not as scary, but saying there were broken or missing files, and the background was showing up wrong. Then I found out that Adobe was discontinuing the software I had been using to author the site. At that point I concluded that trying to fix my broken site was a waste of time. 

I went back to the drawing board and started over with website builder tools that I found through my web hosting company. I feel like a wimp-I wrote my first functional web page in a text editor using straight HTML. But it's enough work to just gather and upload all the content, I'll have to restrain my inner geek any hope you all enjoy the new website!