This website has been 1. More work 2. More stressful 3. More of a learning experience and 4. More time consuming than I ever could have imagined it would be.
Initially I was like, okay build a website, it's like a word document with some funky coding saved back behind all the pretty stuff. This shouldn't take too long. And then I realized I should actually try to learn the software I was working with. And that learning html coding is kind of hard. Well, I can learn as I go right? As soon as they teach me something I'll just go and insert it into my template and walla, it'll be done. It turns out that's not the greatest idea, especially when you have no idea how the program works in the first place. I'd learn something, try to insert it into my template, and then everything else I had done before shifted uncontrollably or was deleted or lost and Oh it was just a mess. So then I re-thought and decided to learn (at least the basics for most parts) of the software before I started building.
About one month and 15 hours worth of Dreamweaver tutorials on Lynda.com later, I think I may actually be pretty alright at using the program and YES my website is live!!
Check it out at http://www.stephusry.com
Now, I'm definitely not yet an expert in Dreamweaver. I still get padding and margins confused once in a while, and my Spry menu bars are definitely not always doing things I want them to be doing (right now there's a strange dotted box around every menu bar link that I have and each time I think I've fixed it, it turns out that it somehow magically reappears) but I've gotten pretty good at it so far. I even had a friend ask on Facebook if I used a Wordpress template! (In case you didn't gather, no, I did not use a template, my entire site I built from scratch!) It definitely has some more work to be done still, but for now I'm rather happy that it's gone up and the feedback has been good!
I do have to say that if it wasn't for Tom Boyer I probably wouldn't even have a website. He was a huge contributor in helping me with Dreamweaver and everything on Adobe. He taught me the basics of using Adobe Photoshop, he helped me create the header images for every page, and he was the genius who figured out why my navigation menu bar wasn't working for about the last 3 weeks. So so so many thanks to Tom for his help!
With that project mostly done for the time being, I've now got time to refocus my fUnemployment life on a new venture. Any suggestions?
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