Coming down the finish line

Class is tomorrow, and I spent all evening working on buttons. Unsuccessfully. I visited the website recommended in the book, as well as several others, and didn't like any of the free buttons I saw. Then I spent something like 3 hours trying to teach myself to make a button in Nvu, and finally figured it out, but then I couldn't get a link inserted. There's just nothing on the Help pages about this. The buttons looked kind of cute, but small, and I couldn't see any way to make them a different color, but I was excited that I figured something out, even if it didn't work. I also figured out how to stop the hyperlink lines from dragging if I moved them. These seem like small things, but when you're not able to figure them out, they become big deals. So, I really wanted buttons and I don't have them.

I am really curious how elaborate all these other sites will be tomorrow. I hope I don't feel like the techno-idiot in the room. I'm sure I'll get all kinds of suggestions for how to beef it up; the problem is my skills are just not matching my tastes and ideas. I had to make a decision weeks ago to keep this website as simple as possible and it really is. I mean, it's hard to see how anyone could make a more basic website. But I did it, and when I viewed the whole thing tonight, I was really proud. I have experienced so much frustration over so many things, that I was really beginning to doubt I would have a site that worked, so I'm relieved about that.

I'm sure I will have more to do on it later this week before I turn it in. I would really like to have buttons and a few more graphics, especially on the portfolio page, and maybe some more links on the More About Me page -- that could be a bit more substantive. It will be exciting to see how everyone else did on their websites. I just hope I'm not too humiliated.