Rodent Regatta

It’s a shame to start a Saturday so early and be frustrated mere hours later. I woke up at 6:00 a.m. with an eye toward installing Textpattern and learning a bit about the interface. I attempted to follow the instructions carefully. Now, when prompted for a login and password, I log in and I’m taken to the main entry screen. In Textpattern it’s a tab called ’write.’

Any link or button I press on that screen takes me back to the login screen. I haven’t been able to figure out what the cause is. I had such high hopes for my ability to become more self-supporting with Textpattern than I have been with either Movable Type or WordPress. Seems as though the common denominator is ”ignorant user.”

All I really want to do is get my two sites moved to a CMS tool without major disruption. I’d like to have test versions of each so that I can tamper with the layout without experimenting on the live sites.

I’ve spent thousands of dollars buying XHTML courseware, design services, software licenses and reference books. Once trapped with a given tool that works and a given design that is working, I guess you are there to stay until you’re prepared to spend more money getting things changed by someone ”in the know.”

No way to start a long weekend. This stuff shouldn’t be this hard.