Did you see my crazy blog? On Friday and Saturday, my website looked awful. Little by little, a bug ate up all my posts, pictures, and even my header, replacing them with random images. (A tire? A pine cone?!)
I try not to bore you with talk of technical difficulties on my blog. After all, you’re here for the recipes, not for a lesson in computers. But today I feel it needs to be addressed, since so many of you have recently been reporting 404 errors when you click on a recipe link. Please accept my apologies for all the trouble, and know that I’m doing everything I can to fix it as soon as possible.
When Good = Bad:
I’ve had to upgrade server packages four times in the last two months! But there’s a downside to this growth: a person needs to know quite a lot about technology to manage all the wild things that can happen to a high-traffic site. I’m struggling to learn it all as fast as I can. And every time a reader sends me an email addressed to my webmaster, I have to laugh. Webmaster? Unfortunately, I’m the only webmaster for chocolatecoveredkatie.com… and that’s a scary thought, considering I didn’t even know what HTML stood for until last year.
(Honestly, it’s amazing my site runs at all!)
C-panels, dedicated servers, caches… who knew running a food blog required so much technical knowledge? I really appreciate your patience as I try to fix all the craziness with my blog. And if anyone has an idea as to why people are suddenly getting 404 errors on pages that DO exist, please let me know! I’ve tried so many different ways to fix it—and nothing has worked.
For your patience in sticking with me, I promise you a really yummy post tomorrow.
Question of the Day:
Are you good with computers?
Or are you clueless, like me? Actually, to be fair to myself, I’m not clueless anymore; I’ve learned a lot. But oh my word, was I ever clueless when I started this blog!
Also: Is my site working ok for you now? Or are you still getting error messages?
lovelovelove your site so I more than willing to work around a few glitches 😉 I’ve been getting 404’d today for the first time :/ good luck!!
Haha, I’m actually a system programmer. I’d offer some help, but web engineering is not my study of expertise, unfortunately. But don’t worry about it, really! Your recipes are well worth the effort of getting a hold of them, haha. Plus maybe enough 404s would give me the push I needed to find the time to go through all your recipes and make myself a CCK Cookbook…
Katie! I am so pleased to hear about your growing audience and the success of your blog (even though this has led to more technical difficulties!). Honestly, your opting to pursue blogging as a career has been a real inspiration and I am looking forward to your continued success in the years to come. In actuality, you have become somewhat of a small-business-owner, contending with the problems of presentation and daily upkeep, the developing and execution of new ideas, and the management of web site financing. I would LOVE to hear more about this side of your life and job. Would you ever consider posting something about the “behind the scenes” working of the site? Would you ever think about taking more classes in web design or technology? Any thoughts about heading the culinary school?
I can definitely put it on the list for a future post… Maybe like a day-in-the-life post? I know a lot of people think full-time bloggers are lazy and don’t work hard, but that’s definitely NOT true! 🙂
I’m soooo bad with computers! Wishing you lots of luck and easy fixes to these problems!
I missed all the crazy images! When I first got wind of this over on FB I came over here and I didn’t find anything wrong. But then again maybe you’d already fixed it by then.
It’s working fine for me now 🙂
Being your own webmaster is tough. My husband manages a few high-traffic websites and something always goes wrong. The technology changes so quickly he sometimes has trouble keeping up with it. I applaud you for wanting to learn what’s involved AND develop your recipes ♥
oh goodness, haha I hope my blog doesn’t get too big because I do not have the knowledge nor the time to learn all that stuff!
There’s still an error message on the sidebar. I know NOTHING about computers. I can’t imagine how crazy it gets with as much traffic as you get. Hang in there- hopefully it will all get fixed soon!
Well I know not much… sometimes I think I need to know more but there is just not any time. I was just on your blog yesterday and all was good… still looks good today.
Katie – we love you no matter what (technical difficulties included)! As far as I can tell, everything is working perfectly for me now 🙂 I will always be a devoted reader/follower…regardless of little technical glitches. Can’t wait for tomorrow’s yummy post! 🙂
Hey, no worries about the technical difficulties. Its amazing how much you do for the blog and can do with technology. I honestly don’t even know how to print from my laptop Ok, well, now I do, but not until recently…