I’ve spent the majority of the day attempting to design web pages for woowooteacup.com. Bah! What a frustrating experience. I was going to try Dreamweaver, but I took one look after opening the program and decided it was too difficult to tackle – and this after having gone through a tutorial. Of course, I did the tutorial months ago, so none of it stuck with me. I have a fairly simple design, so decided to try KompoZer. I managed to get a template done, mostly, only I’m finding that there are certain things I can’t do easily with the program, like getting the links to show up without the automatic underlining. I’ve also got to learn how to use the template correctly. I can’t simply take the template and save it as another file. Bah! Frustrating. And it’s too warm and my shoulders are seizing up and my eyeballs are fried. Bah! I need more web design practice.
Okay, enough complaining. I’m taking a break. If I have time, I’ll come back and do a less-complainy post.



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August 19, 2008 at 10:03 am
Joy
I can’t believe there’s something you can’t do? I’m so disappointed. You are up on a pedestal to me! Why do you need a new Webpage? For this blog? I’m not sure I understand.
August 19, 2008 at 8:34 pm
woowooteacup
Joy – I need a website so that I can have some general static information about my book publishing. Kinda like Neil Gaiman has both a website and a blog/journal. I’ll link to my blog from the website and vice versa. The blog isn’t going away, so no worries there. I’ll also be able to use the website to add things like book covers and pdfs of stories and such, which is kinda hard here because the pages keep changing.
Sorry to disappoint, but there are plenty, plenty, plenty of things I can’t do. (Like make alfredo sauce – my husband makes a killer alfredo sauce.) My frustration comes when I think I should be able to do something and I can’t immediately get it. Although, with the KompoZer program, I think there are things I need to do with my website that the program doesn’t have features to easily accomplish (like that whole not underlining the links thing).
September 15, 2008 at 3:57 pm
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