You would think I would have learned by now.

        I am not good at making websites.  I probably should have given up on making them entirely, since all I use them for is to check webcomics, but I am bored right now, and I had a Frontpage 30 day trial, so I decided to use it.  I have decided that my two main problems with my websites are how plain they look, and how I never update them.  Then of course there is the complete and total lack of content.  to take care of the first problem, you may notice the top is not a solid color as my sites usually are.  You may also notice I used colors other than black and red.  I feel these changes are a step in the right direction.  to solve the second problem, about updating, I will try not to type up anything that will become out of date, like what my day involves, or any use of the word "recently".  To try to deal with the third problem, I will use an age old technique:  The Rant.

        For now, I just plan to complain about things that bother me, and adding on as more things bother me.

Why Tripod Sucks

        Tripod didn't always suck.  Well, it didn't always suck as much as it sucks right now.  When I signed up for my first tripod account, it was a pretty good deal; 50 megs, no pop-up ads (unless that was how you wanted your one ad to appear), and you could upload to you account through ftp, all for free.  Then for some reason, they dropped the space to 20 MB, took away ftp access, threw in an extra pop-up ad, and offered a pay service which included features formerly available for free.  See, while I can understand why they would do such a thing, knowing that as a business they should want to make money, I have my own idea of what they could have done:  Not screw around with my existing account.  Why couldn't they just leave existing accounts as they were, and apply the new system to new accounts?  I signed up for a free website from Tripod because they did not suck as much as some of the other free site hosts that I looked at.  If I had known that they were going to change the deal, I probably wouldn't have made my account.  I probably wouldn't even mind so much if they had at least left in the ftp transfer option.  I don't use nearly 50 MB, let alone 20, and the pop-up ads I can ignore, but I really stopped updating my website when I had to go through the trouble of using tripod's file manager to upload files.