Forging the Blade

The Week of Progress

Finally results! It started with re thinking the hosting server and coming at it from a new angle.  I've spent the last few weeks bridging the gap I have in webdesign, which is supposed to have been graphical in nature, but wound up more.  Either way you look at it I have to learn dynamic CMS (content management system)  I'm providing the hosting service, I need a showcase, flagship framework to use.  I'm not done yet.Still looking at the 5 packages I picked out to learn, but so far with only one more to go the one I love is Typo3.  It's also the most scary, yet somehow I connect with the way the designer laid out the guts of it.  I think it will be much like learning 3d design software for me. What I did was pick out 6 packages and wound up picking the one that was hardest to learn, Lightwave 3D,  I could see why the pros use it.  My thought was, if it was good enough for the Matrix, and Star Wars, NBC, ABC...ect  it would be worth learning even if I learned it badly.  I can see Typo3 is meant for large powerful websites with many users and daily rapid updates like news sites.  I just like it.  I'm still up in the air though.  It could be too much too take on.  The new Drupal is next.  If I can find new great features it might be worth a good look.  Don and I have been using it for a year now, but it has had a lot of issues with design and layouts.  It could very well be my days of Dreamweaver constructions are going to be practically slashed to nothing as all this stuff is designed in the clouds, all server side.

25 tutorials make a choice

I have cued up 25  lessons that will put me to my last test CMS, the new drupal.  So it's time to get away from computers and chill.  My laptop is getting warm.  This day has been heavy for it.  I feel bad in a way. This little blue laptop is my computer everything.  It's not really little, but it is blue.
I saw on the evening news that I will be snowed in, perfect time to learn boring code.  It's too cold outside for much else anyway.

Once the choice is made I'm going to organize the domains and start hunting website hosting customers.  IF they need design work for graphics, the studio is plugged into the server and ready to rock.  I have two eCommerce shopping cart packages, 8 choices of site designers, chat boards, ftp, email, domain management, and endless graphic design options as well as image and photography.  Seems like it's time to start and hit the on switch!

On a side note from my day of picking up scripts and running.

I've realized that it's not the Camp Hill Giant supermarket I hate, as much as I dislike the kind of people who seem to always shop there.  There is no bigger collection of picky geezers who do not understand the concept of the "line"  the one you "wait" in.  Combined with the seemingly endless flaws in the parking lot design make it  a true hell on earth between 7:45am and 9pm  m-s  The only true way to use the store is to get there when the jackasses are still across the street at Starbucks at 7:15am
Again, not the store employee's, except for maybe the old lady at the pharmacy who over the course of four years still looks at me like she has never seen me before in her life with the test questions like when is your birthday or which of these three locations are you familiar with. ( I always found that one scary.) Aside from that, it's the customers.  dreadful horrible rude and full of complete bullshit crap.