Webmaster To Be

One of my new year's resolutions is to update my website, which has been languishing without any updates whatsoever for two years, and has been updated, shall we say, desultorily, since it's inception. I took a course in HTML at a junior college and a few weeks later, voila, a web site. Fun and easy.

It's on AOL which had its own software for pushing things out, but it was mostly my own sloth which prevented frequent updates. As a former computer programmer, I am a hands on person when I know what I'm doing. HTML was easy, and very hands on, but the problem was, I updated the web site so seldom that I forgot it between updates and had to relearn everything each time.

Nonetheless, I was prepared to relearn again, but I ran into issues with the new release of IE (7), which I couldn't figure out how to use to view the web pages. Googled around and still didn't find anything. In the meantime, I discovered good old WORD would show me the web page, and that I could even update from WORD. That caused a huge diarrhea-like mass of HTML to be produced. Then someone put me on to something call N-Vu, which was freeware (too poor to buy Frontpage or Dreamweaver).

So things were humming along, but of course I wanted to add a bunch of pages and rearrange some stuff and this was beginning to look like work, plus it seemed a little too much swapping around for seat-of-the-pants, so last night I bit the bullet and dug out my old flowchart template and did the design, then created a word table with what was on each page, links, jpegs, gifs, all that stuff.

Next came more re-arranging and swapping around but still on paper. Work skills and habits are still with me, and I have a good road map, so bring on N-Vu and we'll see what happens. Should I finish up this project in this lifetime, I'll post a link. Right now, it would be too embarrassing, especially since the current photo is a little blowsy looking, and really not me at all. You are looking at Grapeshot in HongKong on the blog and that looks soberer, more like a solid citizen, a writer, even. Well, you get the idea.

I just love technie projects and can't wait to roll up my digital sleeves and get to work.

Onward,

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