Disaster!

@)$*!)#(!! Website broken.



So I've been working for quite a while now on a new website design, complete with an online store where I can sell direct downloads of ebooks as well as print editions, and it was finally coming along nicely when disaster struck.



You may recall this all began back at spring break when I decided to migrate the Fantasy Castle Books website to a new web host, which turned out to be a major ordeal. But having got that matter all settled I set to work rebuilding a new home for my books. Yesterday I had it all ready to go, complete with PayPal integration and interactive store content, when the final piece of the puzzle led to a critical failure.



In order to finalize the PayPal Express Checkout I needed an SSL certificate for the website, but in the host transfer process I had made fantasycastlebooks.com an add-on to my previously existing rscotjohns.com domain, but you can only get an SSL certificate for primary domains. So I did a domain rename to switch the two, and that's when it all fell apart. Website crashed. Nothing worked. Links all broken. Can't be fixed.



Not only are my pages all corrupt, but the LiveSite software I was using doesn't even work now, even after uninstalling and doing a fresh install. It's just garbled nonsense. Tech support, no help. Documentation, no help. Apirin, no help at all. Can install on sub-domain, but will not work on primary site. Frustrating beyond belief. Complete waste of two months' work.



So here I was all prepared to launch the new website and bookstore and get back to work on the new book over summer break, and instead I'm faced with the prospect of starting all over from scratch. This is why people pay good money for web designers.