Having a small moment of panic.

[logansrogue]

I'm trying to update my approach to making websites. That's no more HTML. I'm practicing with the new Gabrielle and Joxer Romantics Society website. I think this is what going mad feels like.

- I have links at the top. I have no idea how to make sure those links work, like... when I click them, I want to go to a page where the proper tab is highlighted and the content is new. It's okay, I just figured that one out. Hallelujah!

- There's all this stuff that's supposed to be a feed, I think. For a blog or something. Which would be nice but I have NO IDEA HOW TO EMBED SOMETHING LIKE THAT. Or ... ANYTHING.
- There's a gallery thing at the bottom. Element. WHAT IS THE POINT OF THAT? I mean, I want a gallery with my website, but how would I even get something like that TO WORK?

In short:

I HATE YOU WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM, YOU PACK OF USELESS FUCKING WHORES. I read your damned website all about css and I'm FUCKING CONFUSED.

I hate coding. I HATE CODING SO FUCKING MUCH. I just want to make the pretty fucking pictures, you know? That's what I do well. Write text, come up with ideas and make pretty pictures.

HTML WAS NEVER THIS HARD. I MISS THE 90's DAMN IT ALL.

Comments

[loic.livejournal.com]

The w3c ain't the place to learn about CSS. I'm sure there are decent tutorial sites around somewhere. I have no idea where I learned all this crap. There's probably a decent book or two around too - you could checkout the reviews on Amazon.com and then make your library give you the good ones for free.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

It's okay. I've kind of realised what I need to do. See, I've downloaded a template and it's all in xhtml. I actually understand xhtml pretty well cause it's basically html without the shortcuts, ya know? And then there's the basics of css, which I understand too. It's the aesthetic definitions of the website put into one file, while all the displayed data is put into another. I get all that.

What I'm trying to figure out is how assholes get to have a nice little feed on their site, you know? Like Leaky Cauldron or hpana.org. They have a little blog or whatever embedded on the first page, but the whole damned site isn't a blog, just a little element on a certain page. That's all I want, damn it! I'm fucking around with Wordpress but I don't know what the hell I'm doing. *sigh*

[loic.livejournal.com]

In wordpress you can create 'pages' that are like blog posts, but they have an url and don't show up in the feed. Perhaps that's what you're after.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I think so. But I wouldn't even know how to do that. LOL!

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

BrainJar is your friend.

[groovekittie.livejournal.com]

Have you considered a CMS like Wordpress or Drupal or Joomla?

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

If this Joomla works, I might have to have lesbian sex with you.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL Is that a promise? lol

I use Drupal for my new personal website, and it was a bit of a bitch to install, but I had a programmer friend walk me through it. But ... David Hewlett from SGA uses Joomla for his personal website, and he seems pretty happy with it. :)

Either way ... good luck! In general, I think installing them is a bit of a bitch, but in the end, it makes for much easier content management. :)

They use CSS design, which is deadly awesome because you just change the CSS files and the entire site gets the makeover. No more doing it page by page by page. :D Oh ... and then there are THEMES! *giddy*

Yea, I totally geek out over this stuff. lol

[groovekittie.livejournal.com]

K, that was me. *sigh* I have no idea why it posted anonymously. :P

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

You must be a super-hacker on steroids and not even know it. :)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Me too! I love themes! :D :D

[demosthenes91.livejournal.com]

CSS is intimidating as fuck!

I picked up the bits I know from the lynda.com training site and by visiting CSS Zen Garden. After picking up what I could, I used that to try stuff in WordPress - took awhile, but I figured out enough to do what I wanted.

And for the really hard stuff I have the SiteGrinder plugin for Photoshop (which I only got because I convinced the office to buy it.)

But Zen Garden's an awesome resource... give a whirl.