Why can’t anything ever be easy? I knew changing hosts and setting up a new ecommerce website would be a challenge- especially because I had to use a new ecommerce solution that seemed to be very very beta. But I work with what I am given. The easy thing was customizing the free template to match the WordPress theme I custom made for the new site. Oh what a walk in the park compared to other stuff. I have encountered new things these past weeks: Private SSL, openssl,Dedicated IP,openbase,corporatese and sysadmins who might be drinking on the job.
Corporatese I can manage.I read 1984, I knew it was coming:the newspeak. I can imagine it comes as second nature to business school types. I went to art school and the jargon I picked up (to mock it) was just as full of hot air. In artschoolspeak the point was to sound like you were really saying something especially if you were talking about your work. In corporatese the point is not to let anyone know what you are talking about especially if you are talking about your work.
The ecommerce site launched like a tiny little dream with https all over the place. 2 days later the dream vanished and we found ourselves without a dedicated ip. Ssl certificates will not work without a dedicated ip address. It is as if we don’t have an ssl installed at all and are reduced to self signed. Browsers just love this.There is no way anyone is ever going to buy anything if they have to add an exception to do so.There is even a button on the error message that says Get me out of here! With an exclamation point and everything. Who is going to see that and say “oh, I don’t care but I want to buy the item anyway”.