Welcome back WOWI podcast and blog-post fans! As many of you know the site and show has taken a bit of a hiatus over the summer. And, likewise, you know I have planned to relaunch the show around Fall 2023. Progress has been made — I have a few outstanding new co-hosts recruited, and we’ve recorded a couple of interim session. I have also moved the website and domain from WOWI-emeritus co-founder / co-host Tom Trimbath‘s webhost my webhost (so many hosts!) and started making updates. Much of this has fallen into place — EASY — except for the website … and I’m here to tell you how Annie at Midnight Rebel Digital SAVED THE DAY!!!
Saving you technical details*, moving the site involved uploading a backup of the original to my site. That went A-O-K! Getting it to go live, however … that got stuck in the mud — never had a site not-go-live at that point. I tried figuring it out — no luck. When I attempted to get tech-support from my webhost, they were apparently not up for the challenge. What to do — WHAT TO DO???
* Me as well, because I understand this stuff just enough to be dangerous.
Figuratively speaking, I was pulling my hair completely out! My friend, Annie Anderson — a website wizard, and owner of Midnight Rebel Digital — has always helped with the odd web-question I have had … so I thought to ask her of course. Annie took on the challenge LIKE A BOSS!!! Actually, she took it on with typical calm demeanor, but saying “LIKE A BOSS!!!“, didn’t it?
Annie Found a Bug
Something had glitched — the website had an overlapping existence with one of my other sites. Frankly, I don’t know exactly what she did — but it was how she did it that impressed my socks off! In about an hour, Annie meticulously worked to identify the issue, and resolved it — even looking for additional issues that could crop up. She could not have more down-to-earth, good humored, and patient (er, with me) in the process. Writing On Whidbey Island is Live and Awesome Again!
But Wait — THERE’S MORE!
Remember that ‘other website’ I mentioned? It was my BagpiperDon site — quite important to me! A few days later, I happened to take a look at it — another glitch — only the homepage was there. I messaged Annie — yes, I was FREAKING OUT that my oldest site was GONE. Again — calm, knowledgeable, and confident — Annie said “Yeah, sometimes that happens. Usually it’s a simple fix, so let’s start with this …”, and instructed me to log into the site, go to this one place, click save. I reloaded my site and — RELIEF — Everything Was There!
So — yeah — I’m plugging Midnight Rebel Digital!
Annie was OUTSTANDING to get to work with. She saved the day when no one else could or would. She’s the composed affable professional who easily earns your trust and then delivers backed by no small amount of proven industry experience. Need a website? Need your website fixed or improved? Need to see what your website can do for you — go, and go NOW, to Midnight Rebel Digital! Tell Annie that BagpiperDon at Writing On Whidbey Island sent you.
PS to Annie — Thank You, Thank You, THANK YOU!
LINKS
Find Annie and MRD at the following places online…