patndoris TechnoGeek

HTML is such a finicky little creature. Forget a "quotation mark"  or <an angle bracket> somewhere (worse - include an extra one) or reverse letters in a code, and you are left with gibberish. Yet, I refuse to go with templates or visual editors, insisting instead on the tedious task of (mostly) hand coding with Coffeecup HTML editor.  (I wonder [insert visualization of a little cloud bubble above my head here] am I always so hardheaded? Rhetorical question - don’t answer it.) The HTML editor is good, and it helps, but if you insist on doing it the long way, you do have to have a basic understanding of how everything falls into place. You also need the innate ability to copy and paste well. Copy and paste, after all, is the essence of all good web plagiarism…I mean design.

Today, for some reason, I kept getting my e’s and r’s switched around (uh, maybe because I type too fast?) and none of my links were showing in the right places. Grrrrr…..I hate redoing things……so I’d find the extra " and fix it and test again….WHAT? Still no link? Double GRRRRRR……oh…..silly me…when I re-read letter by letter, my mistake was obvious. Not only had I suffered from missed-apostropheus-sporadicatia but I’d had Dyslexia-HTMLus and mixed up my characters as well.  (Oooooh look! Made up dysfunctions - don’t you just love it?)

42 tries later (42 IS the answer to everything in the universe according to Deep Thought…and if you’re not familiar with the literary reference let me know - it would take too long to explain here…) well maybe 4 tries later, it was all fixed.  After working 25 hours a day - with no food or sleep (yah…yah…not true! You caught me! I really didn’t spend long at all on it - maybe an hour) I completed all the necessary changes to my webpage-that-wants-to-be-an-intranet-site (at work) when it grows up.  Task finally done (but not without some choice words muttered repeatedly under my breath).