I am very excited to say that I have begun working on my new website. It will take a while for me to have it up and running but I am exploring the possibility of embedding livejournal into it. I know virtually nothing about programming and web design on a mac, but I am trudging ahead regardless. I went to two bookstores and the library this weekend in search of computer books and ended up with two books on web design (one for Dreamweaver and one for idiots) and two books on Photoshop. Now that I have the Adobe Creative Suite, I want to dive right in. It kills me that I used to be a computer trainer (in a former life) and now I feel like a moron when it comes to anything beyond Microsoft Office. I can program the hell out of spreadsheet and even set up an Access Database, but show me something as complex as an Indesign file and my mind turns to putty. I used to be in charge of my previous employers intranet site and I thought that I was very tech savvy, but that was on a PC with Frontpage and really, I didn't do any of the complex stuff- that was for the programmers to handle. So now that I'm on a mac, it's like a foreign language and I'm starting from square one. I'm pretty confident in my husband's knowledge though, so hopefully this will all pan out.
My mind has been running on overdrive with all of the exciting possibilities for my website. I've been wanting to do something like this for so long and now that I'm teetering on the brink of a web presence, I'm giddy! The past two nights I've been up well past 2am, my mind racing with ideas for names, headers, categories, etc. I've been dreaming in web design formats- I'm not kidding! This happened when I first got CS2 and had to learn Indesign and then create a newsletter for a client in less than 2 weeks. Almost every night I dreamed that I was inside the program and physically moving images and text around. It was like my own version of a Tron nightmare. Thank god that I don't have any impending deadlines for work right now or else I would be up a creek because I'm so tired!
So, now I'm going to spend the rest of the day working on my site. I don't know what it's going to be called yet. I'm toying with a few names, but I don't think that I will be posting them on this site. I'm really worried about my privacy (from clients mainly). So, if anyone is actually reading this site and really wants to know what my new site will be, email me and I will give you the new info when I have it. I don't know if that is very smart either, but I don't want to lose anyone that may be following this. Do I live in a delusional world or what???
Cheers!
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