My Beginning Web

Well, I didn't do a lot on the site today. Did some work on my Esoteric Thought page though. I also did some review of my basic HTML skills. I decided to go ahead and start a page logging exactly what I did, how I did it and what it does. The page is located here if you are curious (nothing there yet, but I'll populate it tomorrow).

So, I went to a friend's house and had lots of food and some good wine. Talked a bit and now I'm home for a good night's rest. I think I will also start up a page tracking my exercise too and introduce everyone to what I did to lose 35 pounds last year in a matter of a few months and the program I'm using to lose that much again (since I quit and gained it all back). I'll let you know tomorrow as soon as I get it up and running. Until then, hope you all enjoyed your Christmas Day and got lots of presents.

- Justin

Ok, this is just after midnight, so I will have another post later today for Day 8. However, Merry Christmas anyhow!

Ok, so today's adventures included me finally finding a DVD ripper that works so I can put my DVDs on my removable harddrive and not have to worry about them getting messed up anymore. I may even just donate them to make room. If you are ever curious go to slysoft.com and check out AnyDVD and CloneDVD. Now to find something for my VHS that works.

Well, as for learning, I did learn a little more in htmldog.com on using span, div, meta tags, more on tables, definition lists, javascript and bad tags. It took all of about five minutes.

Ok, you may see the Amazon.com ads now on my page. This is part of my learning process, but also to help me get back some of what I spend on the things I'm doing for this website. I think it's worthwhile because not only does it help me, but you can see some of the material I bought and used myself.

Ok, now I need your opinion:

Well, after talking with one of my friends, she stated how my site didn't really teach her anything. I'll be honest with you, that's why I reference where I learn from and there's so much out there, why bother to repeat what's already pretty good? A lot of people tell me they really enjoy my writing style and teaching style, I seem to be pretty good at explaining things too. So maybe I can present things in a way that will be more helpful to a beginner rather than just blogging about and showing off what I learned. This is something to chew on, so maybe I will take a break and go back and figure out how to demonstrate or explain in more detail what I did and how. What do you think?

- Justin