The Rant
There are some things in life that absolutely make me want to scream, throw things, and pummel my computer. Tonight let me take this moment to complain about LifeWay’s website. The website that LifeWay has had for quite some time now is on my top 5 list of most hated websites in the world. While I admit that the website looks fairly nice, to me it is a black hole of death that takes me down paths that promise me results and yet lead me astray and stranded in a world I didn’t ask for. This is quite possibly my worst nightmare of all time, to be lost for eternity in the middle of LifeWay’s website of death and let me just tell you, that is how I feel every time I go there. I am so frustrated. I cannot find anything I am looking for on their website without a four hour search time. It’s like some puzzle that needs to be put together before the information can be revealed. They have this nice little search box at the top of the screen that sends me on a wild goose chase looking for things that I begin to believe do not exist. Apparently to use this website you have to have some secret code or something. I have taken several hours out of my day to try and find some things on their website, only to find everything I am not looking for.
Today Bryan IM’ed me to tell me about the new forum being done by lifeway. He wanted me to check it out. So, I went to Bryan’s website and clicked the link to sign up. I got a blank white page. So, I clicked the link leading to the forum. I got a blank white page. So I clicked several other links until I made it to one that went to a forum entry that Bryan had written. From there I was able to sign up for this deal. However, I couldn’t get back to the forum. So I decided that I would just go to the LifeWay homepage and surely there would be an easy link that I could click and be good to go. Guess what. I spent forever and a day searching, looking, staring, and nothing! I am so absolutely frustrated with this that I want to call up LifWay and tell them to fix their website before I have to come down there. Why is this so confusing for me? Why do I have to fish through some back door to try and sneak into the forum? Why can I never find what I am looking for when I get on their website? Is it just me? Apparently it is… I think there is a conspiracy against me here. Apparently you have to scroll, click, and find the correct sequence of menus and pages in order to find what you are looking for. I, however, get the blank white screen of death. I quit, I quit, I quit, I quit.
**UPDATE** Everything works here at the church. So maybe the white screen of death is caused by an error in my browser on my home computer. Now that I have had time to sleep I am not as frustrated with their site anymore. 
for some reason a good nights sleep helps alot of things.
I was wondering why I hadn’t seen your input yet. Don’t you love technology.
I am a moderator for Beth Moore “Believing God” forum. It was Lifeway’s very first forum.
I think that when you get what you call the “white screen of death” you just need to wait a little bit. That’s what happens to me…and I am working with a T-1 line, but I eventually get the community forum page. I don’t know why it is that it is so inconsistent with loading. That is a problem.
I checked in on the new forum yesterday and it is really interesting and I look forward to these discussions…we need a few proud women!!!
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