Brilliant.

I spend all goddamned weekend wrestling with the layout so that I can get the thing uploaded before going back to work on Monday. Finally finish to my satisfaction at about half eight. I can't properly check everything because of the .php being server-side and not client-side, but I've got a .html dummy to check everything's looking peachy in and it's coming out fine. Can't check the links of course, but the way I figure it I'll get that done when I've uploaded and do the bug fixing.

Of course my landlady's son is out, so I can't disable the firewall.

Very well, I'll sit tight. So I do, generally wasting my evening until he gets home. He showed up about twenty minutes ago and disabled the firewall without too much complaint. Good, I think, I'm in the home stretch, won't be long before I can forget about this upgrade.

So I upload. And I go check the site. The splash page loads fine, but when I click enter I get... a page of code. Yup, it's exactly the problem I was having when trying to view the .php layout on my PC. Perfectly normal there. What I should not be getting is that same code when I go check the freaking WEBSITE. I should get something that looks like the actual layout. But I'm not. It's just the code. And it's about as attractive and functional as looking at a browser window full of .html script implies.

Now I feel sick, generally let down, and very, very annoyed.

If I'd known trying to upgrade my site was going to be such a monumental waste of time and I wouldn't actually have a working webpage at the end of it (go to my domain now and see what you get. I dare you) I'd have spent this weekend doing something a little more productive. Now I feel like I poured my entire weekend down the drain in the service of nothing at all. Yes, I'm extremely pissed off. I'm hoping the problem's my end, but I'm inclined to think it isn't. I'm inclined to think I know exactly what the fucking problem is.

Don't tell me, after all this, that my goddamn webhosts don't like .php scripts.

I don't particularly want to email them and ask, because I just know I'll probably get an exceedingly snarky email back if that's the case. Not that the so-called 'support centrer' is being any help at all when it comes to finding out if this is the case or not. Well, I'm sorry, webhosts, for not being so fucking psychic.

I guess if I can't use .php I won't be able to use that layout. That really depresses me. I really like that layout and feel the least I could do, after putting vermachtnis to so much goddamned trouble over this, is actually use the thing at the end of it. Guess not. I'm so disappointed.

And you know, if this is the case and it is a webhosting problem... well, I'll be furious. Largely because I am PAYING TO USE THIS GODDAMNED SERVICE and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that when I upload a new page design it should actually be viewable. I went for your service because you claimed you offered a decent package for personal users and small businesses. If you the provider turn round and say that it's flexible up to the point where you decide that you don't want to keep arsing around with .html layouts every time you want to update your page, I'm going to be very, very angry. Partly with myself for forking out for a second-rate service, but mainly with you for BEING so fucking second-rate. Let me tell you a secret, webhosts...

EVERY OTHER PROFESSIONAL FUCKING SITE OUT THERE USES .PHP SCRIPT.

I'm not claiming to be professional, no, but from my brief acquaintance with .php I can already tell that it'd be a helluva lot easier to update a .php website than a .html one. So, web providers, if I can't use a simple script a lot of people both in the business community and elsewhere who've had their page designed by someone who actually knows what they're doing would choose to use, why in motherfuck are you trying to get SMALL BUSINESSES to use your service?!? Think about it for a second. You'rte shooting yorselves in the foot and I can't find it in myself to be the least bit sorry for you.

God damn. I hope they all fall down a hole. I should stop trying to be smart with my website because I never manage it and I always end up frustrated and tearful. Yes, tearful. I actually do feel like, once again, I'm about to cry over this. How horribly emo of me. Guess I lose at the internet. Sigh. I'm going to go grab my old index document so my page is at least viewable, if looking ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENT to the way it did before I started trying to update it.

What a waste of my time. That'll teach me to try and be clever.