Look, comrades, I don't code like the kool kids. I rely on visual editors, and am just sufficiently conversant with HTML to do basic troubleshooting with a reference manual open on my lap, OK? I've never represented myself as anything but a humble self-taught designer who stumbled into these tech precincts.

I have suddenly lost the ability to post updates to my own modest site (unimportant in and of itself, but symptomatic of a raft of problems encountered as I attempt to get the spousette's site up and running). Following an afternoon's ordeal, I've got both Dreamweaver and Fetch to accept my credentials, and have attempted to upload a one-line modification to my rather pro forma home page. Each application swears that I've done this, and yet, neither Safari nor Firefox (the former after cache and history both cleared; the latter after not having been invoked in, like three years) reflects the afternoon's changes. The truly strange part? When I view the code from the browsers, my change is right there. HTML yes, browser screen no. WTF, my auditors? WTF? Anyone ever encounter this?

chasing my tail,

Slouching is a Blogger site. It's sloppy, but that comes with the territory. No, this is another one, highly obscure. I know that whatever's going wrong is due to my ineptitude, and it's infuriating that I can't find it.

in such a blind frothing rage toward the end that I was hurling spaghetti at the wall: eventually a noodle stuck.

I suspect that somehow I was uploading to a closely-related but obsolete server. Just now, I intend to continue drinking, and contemplate the problem rationally in the cold, hard light of tomorrow's hangover. Thanks to all who opined.

cordially,