Moving on: A Web Page

So I am taking an English class that is focused on DIY culture. For this class, not only are we engaged with reading and writing about DIY, but we are also getting first hand experience. For the first half of the semester we focused on hand craft. I crocheted a scarf. This last half of the semester we are looking into digital craft. We've played with photoshop and dreamweaver (more specifically html and css). For my final project I am going to be constructing a web page. This project kills two birds with one stone. I've been mulling over an idea for a web page (possibly even making it a business) for some time, using it as my final project gives me the excuse to start doing it now instead of putting it off until this summer. I like how this has been working out for me, just last year I had an itch to build my first computer, my laptop crashed, and I had a legitimate reason for not putting it off any longer.

To start with web design, we worked on the course page in class as a template. I was successful at changing the color scheme, adding a banner, renaming the page and links, adding more links, and putting the second side bar on the right side of the page. There is still plenty of work to be done.

For today's goals I wanted to rename all the files, currently they are too long and I can't fit them all into dreamweaver at once. There are 13 pages to be worked on simultaneously, as of right now. I also wanted the page to center in the browser, instead of left align what it is currently doing.

I honestly thought centering my page would be the quickest task to complete, and renaming the current files a bit more time consuming. Boy, I was wrong. Between a handful of google searches that provided less then useful help, a friend, and the instructor, all I have been able to manage is centering my banner and completely fucking up the rest of the page.

So after an hour or two of looking at coding, experimenting, trying to compare what I have to template codes, I was damn near in tears again. I blamed it on the lack of breakfast and took a break for lunch (it was 10am). While I was out and about I headed over to half price books to see what they had to offer on web page development books and guess what I picked up! Dreamweaver CS3: In Easy Steps and HTML: In Easy Steps. For those of you following along it's the same publisher of my Building a PC book. Already I feel more confident about my web page building, I mean if it worked for building my computer how can it fail at getting me to build a web page?