About the Home Page

Well, our group made a discovery about the home page. Apparently it doesn't want to be renamed. Sadly, we learned this the hard way. We discussed changing the name of the home page to something more descriptive, and Wikispaces acted like it was OK with changing the name of the home page. However, much our surprise, it renamed the page and then set up a redirect for the home page. The bad thing about that is that it also put a nice message at the top of the screen stating that the page was a redirect. It was quite an annoying message, and it was large, too. So, that had to go.

The difficulty is that once set up, it took some doing to get the deed undone. This made for an interesting day earlier this week. I had twenty-five messages waiting for me when I got home from school that day.

The good news was that it was fixable.

The strange part was that I was needing to start my classes that day with a disclaimer. I did this because I could only see the emails stating that there was a problem, but I couldn't get a the wiki page to fix anything. So, I would start my classes with the comment, "If I laugh hysterically or manically, here's why..." My students had mixed reactions to my troubles. Mostly they reacted better than I expected actually.

But now its all better, and I am going to get kicked off the computer. So bye.