TechniCola says “all fixed – tadaa”

I am so relieved that I found the (stupid little) mistake why my comments page didn’t show up. Gosh! I could not turn away from my blog code before finding that error. I searched google and the wordpress support pages, but nothing helped me for my problem. Of course not, because it was my own code mistake. But if you don’t know where to look for the mistake, it takes a bit longer as there is not only code to check, but also plugins to deactivate and reactivate.

In the end it was this code snippet:
<?php _e('Leave your comment - Komm', sag was!'); ?>

Now something for the smart ones under us: where is the mistake in the above code?

TechniCola needs to pay more attention. Jawoll!

P.S.: And because life is good when code just works, I felt like a little design change…a very small change…some fresh blue instead of pink (because I love the ocean, and I miss the ocean), a new header font and rearrangement of date and categories underneath the headline. Yep, can stay like this for a while.

There is something wrong here

Craze, no wonder that I didn’t read your comments here for quite a while. My comment function is broken and I cannot figure out how that happened and how to fix it.

I saw that my CSS was not valid, so I spend some time today to eliminate all those 40 errors, phew! Valid code now, but still, the comment function remains broken. I guess that wasn’t it, huh. When you click onto “Be awesome & leave a comment” the comment form doesn’t open. Come here you dirty little code (Kot)…NOW!

I also realized that you probably cannot vote at my new poll if you’re using Firefox (I’m using 10.0.2). The radio buttons are simply not clickable. Arghhhhh!! It works with the Internet Explorer (but shouldn’t it be the other way around? I hate the IE). The poll I’m using is WP-Poll by GamerZ. I have used this nice plugin/tool forever with no problems and want it to work with FF, but I’m using an older WordPress version, maybe that’s it? :{

Now that I wanted to work on the blog, GoDaddy’s server is down. Gimme a break! I cannot count how often their servers are down. COUNTLESS times! How farking annoying! Well, for the record, the server that my site is on was down today on 3/8/2012 from approximately 9:30pm to 9:47pm (EST).

Okay, now…who has an idea how to get my comments page back? It probably is a tiny little code error…but I wouldn’t ask if I were able to find it. Oh – yes, I understand, haha, you would not be able to leave help in the comments, because…haha, ok, understand, how about via twitter or old school email?
Any tips and help is very much appreciated!

Moving registrars – check

I was too optimistic. My blog has now transferred from one registrar (GoDaddy) to the other (namecheap), but the latter wasn’t such a great help. I don’t know if anyone has noticed it, but my blog was offline for A-L-M-O-S-T A W-E-E-K!!! Although namecheap promised to have no or very limited downtime if I used their FreeDNS. Ha, as if.
In fact, whatever namecheap told me (in five different support chats) was wrong, because nothing worked and in the end GoDaddy solved it for me. It was a very simple error; the DNS was set wrong (and I knew it, but namecheap didn’t understand sh$t of my problem). Ok ok, I should not bash my new registrar already, but their (chat only) support really sucks. Let’s hope I don’t have to deal with them too often.

Now I really want to make the right decision with my new hosting provider, because that’s where it is important that my site is running strong and reliably 365 days out of 365 days. Ok, here I am dreaming again.

I must say, I never really had any problems with GoDaddy, besides the fact that I cannot view/use/maintain my website at home because of the known GoDaddy+Wildblue+Mac – problem. Their phone support is very good. And I called them quite a few times. They are always very friendly and mostly helpful. Too bad that we have shitty Wildblue Internet, which doesn’t work together with GoDaddy on my Mac. But since we cannot change the internet provider, I have to change my hosting.

Well, now that my blog is finally up and running with namecheap as new registrar, I will look into moving to a new webhost. I only need to decide between the two that I have in mind…stable*host or host*gator…

Why is it so difficult to choose the right webhost? Why are there 99.8% bad ones out there? All-inkl.com, if you read this, please please offer abroad payment methods like paypal or similar, so I can move my sites back to you. (heart) Until then, I have to swim with the sharks it looks like.

Initiated and Submitted

As of now, February 9, I initiated the domain transfer to namecheap.com. I have changed the domain name server from my old registrar (godaddy) to the new (namecheap), which should insure that my site has almost no downtime during the process. When this is done, I’ll connect the site with a new hosting provider.

I am so excited that I’ll soon be able to blog from home, I could go

Ok, calm down…the birdie on the other shoulder says. You’re not there yet. Who knows, maybe the new hosting provider, which is the more important part than the registrar, will screw it all up as well? There are so many ways how one can screw up. You never know what you get. That’s the world we live in.

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Tonight we celebrate a little bit. The heartman submitted his phd-Thesis (Doctorate) and the missy is already very proud that and how he has endured the last, today exactly, four years writing that research paper with all those (mostly ridiculous) problems he had to deal with at the university in Perth Australia. Finally, he/we can close THAT book and move on with our lives.

We were planning on going to the movies to watch “The Grey”, but missed the show and are now watching “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” on (rental) DVD.
When I was younger I was kinda scared of the first “Planet of the Apes” movie. (*g*) Let’s see how I cope now – all grown up (you’d think, but I don’t).

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Please make the missy happy and take part in the poll and vote – in the sidebar. So far no one has voted. Sniff sniff… big-cola-tears and sad-face and a hanging-head and big-blinking-eyes asking you for ONE click.

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503′s and even more convinced to move

I also get a lot of these with my hosting provider ‘GoDaddy’.

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable.

Argh…always when you need the site to work…it doesn’t. As if I don’t already feel I am cut off with GoDaddy and Wildblue. Thank you very much for making my life even harder.

I never had problems with my previous hosting provider (all-inkl.com) in Germany, but oh well; they didn’t accept to pay via paypal and that’s why I am now stuck with less good options in the same price level – like (m)ass-hosting providers.

P.S. Don’t forget to vote (in the sidebar). Thank you!