Getting serious

It's time to get serious about this. When I started this class, I had illusions of creating this wonderful website. Now that I've played around with different ideas and created some test pages, I have to accept that it needs to be extremely simple. I have to be realistic about my skills and abilities. I want to do something impressive, but I'm going to have to settle for basic. Maybe once I get it all together, I'll feel ready to jazz it up, but right now I just need to get something drafted and uploaded.

I spent this afternoon mapping out four simple pages with a home page, a resume page, a "more about me page and a portfolio page, where I can post some of my projects from last semester, like the PowerPoint, the Publisher brochure and the mp3 file I did, and also maybe some of my papers. It may be a nice tool to refer to in job interviews. I find it kind of difficult to market myself that way, and am not sure if I deserve a whole website, but that's my plan now, and we'll see how it works out. After spending quite a bit of time with DreamWeaver, I'm just not finding it any easier to work with. I just can't get over feeling intimidated by the interface. It's just too complex. I feel so much more comfortable working with Nvu. What does this say about me? But that's the way it is. I actually did upload a couple of pages to myweb using DreamWeaver and I was very impressed with how easy it was. Unfortunately, I could not get the pages to open no matter what I did. So, I'm sure it's a great piece of software, but it's just not for me. Too many bells and whistles. Maybe later. I feel bad about not being able to make good use of DreamWeaver, but things feel so much easier in Nvu that if I'm going to be able to relax and enjoy this process, I'm going to have to stick with Nvu.