I attend a very, very small church. We have absolutely no budget for technology. I am donating my time, I found a very helpful and free host at Worthy of Praise, and I found a free web design software called Kompozer. That was mistake number two.
Not that Kompozer isn’t good. I think that it is probably great for a free, open-source software which tries to include wysiwyg, html source coding, and css editing. What is all that, you non-techy people ask? Me too. I’ve learned a ton. Blessing number one.
So I designed a couple of pages (with the help of a free template) and got it looking pretty good. I decided to put on sermons from the pastor. We have the equipment at home, thanks to my geeky (yet wonderful!) husband. Now I have these awesome audio files and no idea of where to put them. The FTP client in Kompozer does not upload these to my host server, and they recommend having them hosted somewhere else ande hotlinking them to the main site. Confused yet? Yep, me too. I need to find the answer to this dilemma.
I also uploaded a page, just to see what it does, and the entire css messed up. That was the last straw for the day. I haven’t figured out yet what happened, but will just sit there awhile until I can get it straight.
So, today, I’m frustrated. I’ll get over it. 
Why won’t Kompozer ftp the audio files to your free space? Is it a space issue, that your free host site doesn’t have enough? I don’t know as much as I used to (somehow technology has outpaced my time to play with it over the last 7 children) but I still know some and my own geeky man knows even more. You can email me if you’d like, maybe I can help a little …
Our church is fighting a similar battle. Websites are so important and yet — so ridiculously hard!!!
Merry Christmas!
Love,
Lacy