Back Up and Running

Note to Self: Don't try to change the template ever again.

The problem started Wednesday night when I (foolishly) figured I could easily change the template to give a look more consistent with the PS3/Video Game theme of the writing. I browsed and searched until I found a pretty spiffy PS3 theme (which you are now enjoying). I made sure to make a backup of the old layout before I altered anything, then proceeded to upload the new template. It informed me I would lose my widgets (the little boxes to the side telling you how much I have left to earn for the PS3 and what-not), but I copied down the information in them and told it to go ahead. The save looked successful, so I clicked the button to view the blog, and nothing came up. Nothing.

Well, not completely nothing. I got a nice page giving me a 404 error saying the site couldn't be found. Hmm, looks like the new template hosed the site. No worries, I made a backup. Upload the backup, click view. Same 404 error. I ran through about an hour of trying anything and everything I could think of, nothing could shake that 404 error. It pursued me as doggedly as the Aztecs in Civ 2. As an aside, I hated the Aztecs in Civ 2, those war-mongering bastards.

I made a post on the Blogger help forum, but after 24 hours there was still no resolution. That leads me to this morning. Being frustrated, I kept plugging away, and since you're reading this now, you can safely assume I fixed the problem. How did I do it? As you may have noticed, I have a custom domain name here, http://www.myps3quest.com/. I rolled the name back to http://myPS3Quest.blogspot.com and the site loaded. After that, I had to switch back to the custom name, go to my domain host's site, redirect the information (again, since I did it once already) and now the site is here for all and sundry to see.

So that's the story of the mystery disappearance, in case anyone even noticed. I'll try to make it up with something exciting tomorrow.