A Lefty Writes

Part of me wishes that I hadn't learned basic HTML in high school (thanks a lot, Afsheen...). Because now, when I start creating a new page, I spend hours upon hours tinkering with code instead of just using Dreamweaver and being finished with it in a third of the time.

There are two things that make the process slow:
1 - I'm not that great a designer and I'm overly ambitious. Therefore, I want to create masterfully designed pages that are far outside my realm of creativity and graphic design.
2 - My knowledge of code is amateur at best. Therefore I borrow (yes, borrow...) from a variety of sources but don't quite know how to make the pieces fit together.

For the new page I'm trying to work primarily in CSS. There are definite advantages to this, but it's also a new learning curve for someone who grew up in the "table" era. (For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, this probably isn't the most exciting entry.)

I'm working off the basic MT template and trying to do most of my changes to the CSS instead of the HTML. For those interested in seeing just how much one can change on a CSS-enabled page without touching the HTML, check out CSS Zen Garden. The different designs all use the exact same HTML code but with different CSS style sheets.

I don't think I'll work too much on the page this weekend. Tomorrow I'm joining Andy and his friends for a pub crawl of Allston-Brighton's finest drinking establishments. And then Sunday I'm going to be nursing a hangover. But hopefully by mid-late next week I'll have something online for people to check out.