<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< - After The Bite- Websites

2/4/19 EDIT- Google recently notified me they are deleting all websites that use the system my sites are currently on. All of the pages and content will be gone within several weeks.

The reason I had to develop so many sites is because the original ones accumulated too much information as years passed by and exceeded the maximum space allowed. They had to be broken down into smaller sites- like what to do when you get a tick bite, children's Lyme issues, how to find a Lyme treating doctor, etc.

Google is offering a new system, one that is limited, totally different and extremely difficult for me to see (vision), understand and use. My attempts to switch a few sites to the new platform so far have been unbelievably frustrating, time consuming and the results were disastrous. It would problably be easier to start from scratch due to the high number of pages that don't translate over in their original form.

However...

There are countless hours invested in these sites including years of medical/scientific research and writings. Currently there are approximately 8,000 or 9,000 individual pages and approximately ten times that many individual links embeded in the pages that unfortunately aren't transferring over from the original sites to the new sites. I don't have any energy left to redo all this work and start from scratch. I'm just too sick.

I checked getting a new host (server) and the choices are slim, not suitable for many reasons and expensive (I've done all the work on the sites saving all labor costs over the years.) Example- to build just one site with 10 pages included would cost me $1,500 plus an annual fee of about $150. There are additional fees for additional pages, domain names and anything that doesn't come with the basic package which I was told is quite a bit. There is no way I can handle this deal and I don't expect anyone else to do it either.

Do You Believe In "Signs"?

While all of this was going on I posted a goofy picture of a groundhog and another of a palm tree on an unrelated FB site just for fun in celebration of Groundhog Day. Within two days there were about 500 shares, comments and likes. I laughed! Nothing I do in the Lyme world has excited people to that extent. Is someone telling me something? In this case it would be a "sign" from Jimmy Buffett because it was his FB fan page! ~smile~

So, my choices are- A.) continue this Lyme disease education and website struggle (33 years so far invested) if I can find a solution... OR... B.) let the sites go down and just retire.

Right now I don't know what I am going to do.

In the meantime...

If you know of anything you'd like to save from the sites linked above, please do so now. Thanks!

Lucy Barnes

AfterTheBite@gmail.com