Spur of the Moment Decison

It seems like everyone I know these days has a personal website. Okay so that's a massive overstatement but a lot of people I know have one. Following on from designing my friend's website yesterday, I decided to start designing my own for the domain name I now own.

Somehow, designing it for myself seems a lot easier than designing it for someone else. I have got a basic structure for mine already and have a good idea of what I want it to look like. I guess I also have the flexibility to spend a long time on an idea that in the end I might not use whereas I am more reluctant to do that for other people - not only because it uses up my time but mainly because I have limited contact time with them anyway. I am several steps closer to remedying the website issues I've been having thanks to some Googling and a bit of overnight inspiration. Turns out the reason I couldn't seem to change the DNS settings for the landing page was because I had started using the website builder application which had locked that domain. I managed to get several sub-domains up and running successfully but I didn't really want to have to go to xxx.davwil00.co.uk to get to my homepage. On the other side of things, I think I have well and truly messed up the free hosting settings. After having it working, I decided to undo what I had done and do it properly. This made things worse and whilst I was playing around with the settings, I changed the primary domain and can now no longer access my website either through the browser or FTP.

Some of the forum posts say that waiting until tomorrow might let me change some of the settings as changing to many things at once confuses the system. I guess all I can do is wait and see. It doesn't seem to be a unique problem in any case although it is a little frustrating that rather than post a solution, the administrators seem to take it into their own hands to fix it. This might be because you need to be an admin to fix it but if you don't, it might be nice to tell us so that we at least have a chance to try ourselves before wasting their time.