Out of the Pan and Into the Fire - *Sigh*

As you may know, DH has been working hard at photographing inventory that he thinks one particular supplier might be interested in. He finally got to the point of offering it to them yesterday, but found that they didn't allow him to upload photos directly. Instead, they required him to supply them with the URL to take a look at the photos on HIS website. Well, he doesn't have a website. Yet. I told him he should set one up but, as usual, he didn't listen to me. 

Now he has to deal with setting up a website. It doesn't need 
a lot of bells and whistles, it needs the basics - domain name, 
intro page and whatever he's offering. 

At 8:00 pm last night, he finally realized he has to set up a website for this stuff. I suspect he'll be grabbing my laptop and working on it at the shop, and that's got me rather pissed. I use that laptop, it's totally MY laptop. I purchased it with my own money when my previous laptop was dying. I have it with me every single day. He had made sounds about buying a laptop, but that's all they were - sounds. I know he won't part with the money to get one, even though it's a logical next step. 

I've been very happy with my Lenovo laptop and if I need 
to get one for DH, that's the one I'll also get for him. I won't 
allow him to use mine every day. Guaranteed! 

So I'm not going to be happy. There will need to be some compromise somewhere, and having him take my laptop for his work when I have my own to do on it is not one of the areas of compromise in my arena. I'll probably let him have it for today, I don't really think I'll have much of a choice. But I'm also going to look carefully at laptops for him, and I might even end up buying one for him just to get him out of mine and out of my hair. 

He really hasn't put any thought into web design because 
he was adamant that he wouldn't need one. But, the vendors 
he's approaching about purchasing some of his supplies are 
requesting that they view the information on his website, 
not have the picture file sent directly to them. So ... he has 
to make a quick and dirty website. It would be easier if 
Chickie was here. She could help him and I could take 
care of customers. 

His website isn't a website for sales. It's almost a place holder - something saying "We're here, we're legitimate, and we have the parts that you want." He doesn't want to do e-commerce on it - his customers are select and few and very specific. He does need to have his photos uploaded into it, however, and how he's going to keep one vendor from seeing the photos of another's is a mystery to me. I set up my own company's website more than 20 years ago and it was a long, involved process. But my website was a commercial website where we sold product online. That's not his vision. 

This just about says it all. 

Still, it's an ARGH situation and I'll have to figure something out because him using my laptop in the long term simply isn't going to be feasible. I have my own projects on it that are taking my time, and I work on it every single day at the shop. Giving it up will be like cutting off my arm. No. Simply No. *sigh* So, I'm out of here. I'm going to try and hit the pool up between thunderstorms. I'll be back tomorrow. Slava Ukraini.