Kirsty
Fri 13 Apr 2007
You know my life would be so much easier if I would have stuck with computer science in university instead of jumping ship once I discovered it actually took lots of hard work and I couldn’t stay out drinking 6 nights a week.
I’m feeling really frustrated these days and it’s nothing to do with my income or running out of ideas. It’s actually the opposite - too many ideas! I’ve got all kinds of grand plans for sites running through my head and not enough tech savvy to pull them off.
I’m finding it quite hard to strike up a balance between working on my sites and working on myself - ie. educating myself in CSS, PHP, mySQL, Google Maps and all those things that will make the web publishing game much easier in the future. But when I sit down and dedicate my time to learning something new I wonder if it will pay off as much as I think it will.
Adding to my frustration is my wifi connection at home. It’s gone a bit haywire and I’ not sure what the deal is. It sounds like it’s my wifi card but I just wish I knew more about these sorts of things. I think I wrote a post in my early days saying that you don’t have to be a huge computer nerd to be able to publish successful websites, but I think it would help!
I think I might leave the other tech things I mentioned for awhile and concentrate on learning CSS as I’ve avoided it for far too long now and not knowing it really causes headaches when I want to alter Wordpress templates.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Although, that all said, I’ve finally cracked the mystery of making my main .htm file work as .php while still passing the PR. Yay! Feeling much better… I’d been at that on and off for months!
April 15th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
On my Tokyo site which the index file is html, I just put the TL code in a php file and included it in the html file. I have sold a couple of links already so it must be ok.
April 15th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I think the difference between geeks and non-tech’s is that the former look at a application/method and value it for it’s own worth and complexity, how it works is for them more important than what can be done with it.
For a non-tech like my self an applications/method’s only value lies in the end results and I only learn new stuff if I must.
I’ve tried to approach programming as if I was a geek but the love just ain’t there, the only way for me is learning by doing.
Often it leads to me either selecting an overly complex application/method to solve a simple problem or streaching simple applications/methods far beyond their original purpose, like using Paint to edit and prepare photos for the net.
April 15th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Glad you got the php working
April 15th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Actually I spoke too soon. That method screwed up the rest of my site so I’ll try your way Mike, thanks! I will keep you posted.
Ya I can relate, gotta learn by doing but there’s no love of it, that’s for sure.