diary of a newbie webmaster:
It's going to be a few more days until i get to be called a webmaster officially. Something, if i was a kid 2-3 years ago - would be what i want to be when i grow up.
how did i grow up??? well..... i grew up where htmls were never heard of... where interactivity is a mere response from the mail.. snail mail. then we'd know someone is actually hearing what we want to say. or the sales went up right after a launch.
i have mastered the art and business of graphic design. but the advent of the i-net was something we had to reckon with. it was a new form of communication and it was catching on. 10 years or so after---- i am part of this craze. and a webmaster at that.
what the heck was html? computer 303 for me then was programming.... flow charting. and thanks to www.alimasag.com i learned the art of [b] and [/b] just to stress a point. the power of the colon never dawned on me until that time i needed to give a good laugh.
now comes that stupid characters "<" and ">" .... i only used that on 3rd grade to define a less than or greater than expression. now i use it like it's the end of the world if i miss one. how would i know a "space bar" would create havoc on my pages if i press on it too much or miss one????
and you know what else? because i am in the graphics and advertising world.... i am on a mac and all the web tools are in windows os. that sucks. i can't even get on telnet without really knowing the basics of scripts.... (what the hell are scripts anyway? weren't those the lines i wrote way back on stage presentations?) i can't even download .exe files since it's a self running program designed for windows. how many email attachments have i missed? geeez..... thank god for mac geeks... or the unselfish sympthetic windows gurus. =) they made life easier for me.
anyway.... i am slowly getting the hang of this. i like that "webmaster" ring on a live website. i wish i have all the time to learn new softwares..... my real job keeps me from getting deeply involved with the web. i have yet to learn adobe indesign for christ's sake... + macromedia freehand and adobe photoshop keeps upgrading at the same time... i can hardly keep up. oh well... not that it keeps me from learning the web.... but it's a totally different discipline altogether for me. a whole new world.
i'm like a kid now learning the ropes. fun part of this is.... i get to know a lot of people. people i haven't even met at all--- but would give me tech support 24/7. mind you, it also came with morale support. ain't that cool? people whom i've known for years would not even give me a pat on the back for a job well done.
and look at this.... i am pouring my heart out to a screen.... a weblog for that matter.... for everyone to see... and read. geeez..... my world keeps getting bigger and bigger all the time. my thoughts used to be confined in a notebook i wanna burn now.
by the way--- i'll soon publish the first website i've ever designed from scratch. really soon. it's our company website that i was assigned to do last year but only got to actually work on just recently. no fancy flash animations on it, though..... (another s/w i wish i could master) but i'm mighty proud of it just the same.
so who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? eh?
It's going to be a few more days until i get to be called a webmaster officially. Something, if i was a kid 2-3 years ago - would be what i want to be when i grow up.
how did i grow up??? well..... i grew up where htmls were never heard of... where interactivity is a mere response from the mail.. snail mail. then we'd know someone is actually hearing what we want to say. or the sales went up right after a launch.
i have mastered the art and business of graphic design. but the advent of the i-net was something we had to reckon with. it was a new form of communication and it was catching on. 10 years or so after---- i am part of this craze. and a webmaster at that.
what the heck was html? computer 303 for me then was programming.... flow charting. and thanks to www.alimasag.com i learned the art of [b] and [/b] just to stress a point. the power of the colon never dawned on me until that time i needed to give a good laugh.
now comes that stupid characters "<" and ">" .... i only used that on 3rd grade to define a less than or greater than expression. now i use it like it's the end of the world if i miss one. how would i know a "space bar" would create havoc on my pages if i press on it too much or miss one????
and you know what else? because i am in the graphics and advertising world.... i am on a mac and all the web tools are in windows os. that sucks. i can't even get on telnet without really knowing the basics of scripts.... (what the hell are scripts anyway? weren't those the lines i wrote way back on stage presentations?) i can't even download .exe files since it's a self running program designed for windows. how many email attachments have i missed? geeez..... thank god for mac geeks... or the unselfish sympthetic windows gurus. =) they made life easier for me.
anyway.... i am slowly getting the hang of this. i like that "webmaster" ring on a live website. i wish i have all the time to learn new softwares..... my real job keeps me from getting deeply involved with the web. i have yet to learn adobe indesign for christ's sake... + macromedia freehand and adobe photoshop keeps upgrading at the same time... i can hardly keep up. oh well... not that it keeps me from learning the web.... but it's a totally different discipline altogether for me. a whole new world.
i'm like a kid now learning the ropes. fun part of this is.... i get to know a lot of people. people i haven't even met at all--- but would give me tech support 24/7. mind you, it also came with morale support. ain't that cool? people whom i've known for years would not even give me a pat on the back for a job well done.
and look at this.... i am pouring my heart out to a screen.... a weblog for that matter.... for everyone to see... and read. geeez..... my world keeps getting bigger and bigger all the time. my thoughts used to be confined in a notebook i wanna burn now.
by the way--- i'll soon publish the first website i've ever designed from scratch. really soon. it's our company website that i was assigned to do last year but only got to actually work on just recently. no fancy flash animations on it, though..... (another s/w i wish i could master) but i'm mighty proud of it just the same.
so who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? eh?
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