If I was working as a WordPress installer, I could have racked up some serious overtime pay, but as it is, doing this for myself, I’ve racked up mucho hours and bloodshot eyes.
I hate NOT knowing how to work situations that affect me directly. (I’m sitting here trying to remember if I’ve ever put in this kind of energy for another person…surely, I must have). This blog of mine is and will be a work in progress for some time to come, as I learn the intricacies of WP. I know I’d have a much easier time if I knew Php. As it is, I know html, how to read CSS, but not code it without a book. Strangely, Php is looking more familiar, as I pick through the functions. I did manage to stumble across a couple of solutions to problems I was having with navigation. And I figured out how to get my pony on the page, although it doesn’t show exactly where I wanted it originally. It kept crawling under the navigation bar. I like where it is though.
Learning Php is on my list of things to do, but I can’t even begin to get into that until I tackle CSS. I’m having to teach myself, because I don’t know anyone in my real world who’s even remotely interested in delving into it like I am. Whew! Little brain is spinning.
Eventually, I’d like to do a site that has a beautifully rendered artistic layout, like the ones I’ve seen at Creamy CSS and Zen Garden. I’d like to have some tutorials here on my work in Gimp. (I should have been taking notes on my travails with WP) In fairness to myself, though, this is not the only site I’m working on. I have one other sites, – all in need of a fairer share of my attention. Why I’m spending so much time on this site is a question I ask myself, when the other sites stand to make me money.
And now time is running out. Summer break is almost over. School starts in a couple of weeks, and instead of being able to stay up until the wee hours of the morning tackling sites and codes, I’ll be grading papers and getting to bed before 11pm so that I can face the little monsters, uh darlings the next day.
But as much as I struggle with this stuff, I’d rather do it than anything else.
