I have learned a lot these past few months. I actually can look at CSS and tell what’s going on. I can even write it, although I’m still working on the fine tuning. Now Php, that’s a whole other horse. Everyone says it’s easy, and I believe them, but I tell you the syntax, with all those braces and quotation marks — I don’t get it just yet. Miss one and your site will go blank. Still, I’m getting better at reading it though, so that’s comforting.
I have Dreamweaver now. Well, I’ve had it for several months. I actually prefer hand coding because I like to know how things are supposed to work so I use Notepad++ a lot, but Dreamweaver is another good way to learn CSS. I’ll be getting Photoshop and Fireworks soon. I figure between those four, my big CSS book, my occasional flirting with Php, I ought to get better at this stuff soon. I’d like to become one of those coding ninjas. That shouldn’t be too hard to do seeing as I literally spend hours on this internet combing tutorials, practicing with my own web sites, and just basically having no other life outside of web site construction. I can put a bare-bones WordPress site together in under 10 minutes. I can write an article in 15. I can get some basic styling going in 30. Sweet.
It’s all good. I’m not shame to say I’m an almost nerd. There’s not anything else I’d rather do. I’ve only been like that a couple other times in my life: once while in college – I was determined to finish and finish well, and another time when I was heavily involved in sculpting. That passion lasted 10 years. I actually like having an interest grab hold of me. It gives me direction and purpose.
So…maybe it’ll all turn out to be something good in the end. I’m hoping so.
