Monday, June 9, 2014

My Grand Adventure

You may notice that my blog looks a little different.
Or maybe a lot different.
Depending on whether or not you're looking at the mobile version.
What? You didn't know I had a mobile version?
SURPRISE! I do.
You need to know that I am obsessed with notebooks and journals of every kind. It was only a matter of time before I figured out how to make it happen. An online notebook has been my dream for an entire year. It almost happened in November, but then...
My computer died. I was very sad, as I had spent many hours detailing my laptop case. It being one of the only things I have left from home, I was reluctant to replace it. Finally after weeks of frustrating computer usage (It automatically shut down programs while I was trying to do homework at least three times per assignment. I had to manually save my documents every 5 minutes to prevent copious amounts of REWRITING) I decided I had had enough. And I bought a new computer.
I love it almost more than I loved the old one!
Finally after several months of figuring out my new computer, I decided to try something.
I wanted to update my blog design.
And I tried my hand at HTML.
It only took 6 hours to edit the template I wanted...
Computer language is a lot more complicated than it looks..
But then I realized that it wasn't as scary as it looked at first glance. It actually kind of made sense. Every element starts with a certain code, and it ends with a repeat of the same code. To remove an element in the template you had to figure out where in the HTML it lay (This is the most tedious part) and then delete everything. The beginning code, the end code, and everything in between.
Once I had it all figured out, the editing took about 20 minutes.
Adding things to a template though... that is a whole different story.
Maybe next time I'll just get someone to do it for me.

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