The warm reception I had yesterday for my poem Chains of Blindness was most welcome. And timely, too, for I’ve been worriting away at getting my old on-line poems and stories back on the net after closing down the oldgreypoet website (it’d become too complicated and time-consuming to maintain).
So a great deal of my time yesterday was spent in an attempt to replicate one of my on-line poetry chapbooks–the one containing Chains of Blindness–in a new wordpress.com blog. Sad to say, if it’s possible, the result is so far away from the original that I can’t bear it.
The chapbooks are all in standard html, and I seem to remember verifying them against the last pre-xml standard, so all I need is space. I can still create a standard html website without difficulty or brain-pain.
Complicated. And a little frightening. There’s plenty of ‘free’ web hosting services about but there’s something about them I don’t like. ’Cheap’ web hosting services abound, too, and as you’d expect, you get what you pay for. The problem is in finding out precisely what that what is.
I bet you know what’s coming now? Yup. You’re right. Hey ho.
I’ll keep whittling away at the problem till I get it done, and have a poet’s website again. Nice project for the summer.
The journal/blog will stay where it is, as it is. I can’t be doing with learning scripting languages all over again.
