energy surge

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  Well, I have had several days of real productivity in recreating my Golden Child website. It is a tedious task for me and I am having a lot of outside stressors.

Errands have to be done, things need to be bought, money has to be made, the dishwasher needs unloading/loading…it goes on and on and most times I am overwhelmed. But here I sit, working at this computer much of the day.

This new and improved site will be a Flash XML site and although the creators of the template assured me that there need be no coding and the site will be easy to modify I find that not to be the case.

When you are altering anything in an XML file you will quickly find that having a space or a quotation mark out of place will prevent the site from working.

Look at it this way. It’s like writing a book and forgetting a comma on one page in chapter 6, then finding that your table of contents has vanished. Imagine that you don’t know that a comma is missing. You have to find out why you TOC has vanished and fix the problem. That takes a lot of trial and error and a lot of time and frustration.

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Yet, I am the only one who can do this. Like all art forms, I am the only one who has this dream in my head. I know what I want it to look like and sound like and feel like. Even if I did have the hundreds of dollars it would take to pay someone, I would still have to find the photos, do the interviews, create the Power Point presentations, the quizzes the puzzles etc. The paid person could only put everything together and make sure it all worked.

Right now I am just trying to get the basic elements together for launching. Like all web sites it will be an ongoing project. But just as I take pride in having the first comprehensive informational site for pan-Africans with albinism, I also want it to be the best site for pan-Africans with albinism that I can make.

So, I will work on my albinism site and this Zebracorn site and my art and my writing each day until I am satisfied with my product.

As a Creative, I don’t think I have a choice.

Tags: computer, site update, web site

A big job

I am finally getting around to it after a very long time. I am revamping the Golden Child site.

There have been many revisions on my home computer but I kept abandoning them. They just weren’t to my liking. I made many CSS sites that didn’t work, or had so many problems that I got bored with them. I wound up just redoing the home page.

I even downloaded a Word Press site, and transferred most of the information. I didn’t like that one either.

I finally found a template to use. It’s xml and Flash and I really like it. I may have to provide a mirror site for those who cannot use Flash. Transferring all the historic information and adding new things is proving to be a daunting task. And I am not known for speed. Everything I do is slow, methodical and I hope, well thought out.

It would be so much easier to have an expert do it for me but I don’t have the money to pay anyone and I am a control freak. This site will have more than 30 pages so bear with me as I delete, include, tweak, revise and make sure all the graphics and text are just right.

Once the new site is up, this blog will go away. (Not that anyone is reading it.) It will be incorporated into the new site along with some nice surprises.

I will send out announcements when it is done. It will take me a while but you have waited this long, I hope you will enjoy the new site

Tags: CSS, Flash, update, web site, xml