Texas Bound

I’m about to board Continental flight 1821 to Houston after traveling packed like a sardine this morning in a shuttle van from Chattanooga to Atlanta. I hope to catch a little shut eye during the flight this afternoon as I’ve been burning the midnight oil for the past few nights working on this website.

I appreciate the help my friend gave me last night in adding ‘Blogger Power’ to this web site. My goals in this project included building a clean, easily modifiable CSS based site with low maintenance blogging and archiving.

I keep tossing around the word CSS and blogging as if everyone is familiar with these terms. A simple explanation is that CSS, which stands for cascading style sheets, are a powerful way to format web site content. With CSS you define a style sheet who’s format cascades throughout all the web content to which it refers. I can now for instance change the font for the ‘Related Links’ header to the left and it will change on all pages. Before switching to CSS I would have had to change it manually on every page.

The word ‘blogging’ refers to maintaining a web log, or journal. Blogging is an easy and popular way for people who enjoy writing to get published instantly. ‘Blogger’ is a web based program that allows writers to update their blogs via any web browser or email client. Blogger automatically posts the update to your website and builds the archives too! There are other blogging programs out there but I highly recommend Blogger. I started using Blogger back when it was a fee based service. When they switched to a free service, and were later bought by Google, they sent me a cool hooded sweatshirt as a way of saying thanks for being a pioneer.

I was beginning to think that in order to use Blogger’s power I’d have to limit what I wanted to do with CSS convinced me that we could figure it out.

They're calling my row - gotta go. ¶ 11:55 AM