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!