The Halfway Point

I’m finding this class very interesting and useful. I always wondered how someone could build a webpage from scratch. The video tutorials have been very useful and have helped me to work through all the HTML coding. The closest thing I’ve done to HTML coding was back in the 1980’s when I worked a little with Basic language programming. Back then I used to buy Run magazine and would try to type in the codes, included in the magazine, into my $50.00 TRS80 Micro computer. The program, when it worked and it rarely did, could only be saved on a cassette tape and that didn’t work very well either.  A few years later I would buy a Commodore 64/128 but I spent more time playing games then I did  working with programming.  But now I’m showing my age.

I’ve been using social media for a good amount of time to network with other writers. But this class has pushed me to move beyond facebook and also join Linkedin and twitter where a lot of writers are also networking. I’ve also been inconsistently writing a blog at Wordpress but I just set up a separate one at Blogger and I think I like it better. I’m hoping to learn more about personalizing my blog. I know a lot of writers use them as substitutes for a Webpage. I’m not sure I’ll learn enough in this class to go beyond creating a basic Webpage, and I’m not sure I’m want to go that far anyway. But the class  has given me a greater appreciation of the process.