My Website is Complete!

When I first decided to have a website I had the crazy notion of doing it myself, figuring it would only take me a few months to complete a basic site.

Boy was I wrong. There's this thing called hypertext markup language (the code you write websites in) that tolerates no mistakes, like unclosed tags, or it just won't coorporate with you.

I am so pleased that I have finally have a web presence. You can now find me at http://www.redbarn-studios.com/ (don't forget the hyphen). It still needs little tweaking and I have much more to add like more of my artwork and links and such, but wanted to get it up and running. It is a wonderful feeling to know, no matter how simple it is.....I DID IT!

Go on, check it out and let me know what you think.

See ya next time "In the Hayloft"

p.s. I'm sure some of you were wondering why I chose "Barnyard Chatter "for the name of my blog. Well all along I knew that my company name would be RedBarn-Studios so I figure that when you come to visit me we'll be sitting up in the barn's hayloft shooting the breeze talking 'bout this and that or checking out what I've been working on.

Besides, everyone knows I would happily live in a refurbished red barn if Icould .....and ..........I would have to refurbish it myself of course!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hubby and 6yr old with my first poinsettas of the season

Hope everyone had a gobbly good Thanksgiving. It was nice just having the family around but it felt strange as well cause we usually have friends over (they also have no other family near them) but this time they chose to have a quiet day themselves. Got a call from one of them and he said he missed being at our house! Ohhhhh. So me thinks we'll end up together again next year as was our tradition for over 12 yrs. Ya live and ya learn.

Yesterday, because we didn't have guests I got to do some of my own thing (which I promised myself to work on) and I finished the look of my website...the struggle with that had more to do with being content with what I produced enough to like it for the long run.

I have a few pages to fill out...one being the "about myself" page, aaagrrh (waxing on about my accomplishments is something I'm still not very comfortable doing) and secondly I need to take good pics of my large quilts to post on my gallery page. Have to set it up outside to get good pics cause I don't have a studio wall big enough.

Wish me luck that it works the first time around so I can finally upload it to a server so that the whole wide world can see me. Yikes! Just the thought of that gives me the heeby geebies but...I WILL NOT GIVE UP, I WILL PERSEVERE!!!! .

I know, I know you're probably thinking"she got a blog for goodness sake, how's that for worldwide" but having a website is somehow different in my mind. Here I'm just enjoying "chatting" with friends.

By the way I usually end my nights just before I go to sleep by finding something everyday to be grateful for. But this Thankgiving I am more grateful than you can imagine for having my family, all my children at home to celebrate the day with. We've been in upheaval for such a long time it was good to just appreciate them all. Of course my 6yr old kept telling me, "Mummy you're staring at me again". What can I say, they make me smile and those tender feeling just rise to the surface.


See ya next time"In the Hayloft",

Progress

I'm quite estatic this early morning. I finally have my 1st web page done...well... not really...I have set up a, uno, one page and now need to tweak some images so they show up better. Boy am I happy (can't you just see me doing the happy dance?).

I bought a couple of books (see previous post) and found four more at the library that I thought would help although you know those are really out of date at 3 years old. I considered for a millisecond purchasing DreamWeaver but my budget just ain't there. I decided to go on the web and see if there could possibly be anything else a teensy tiny bit cheaper (like $200 cheaper) and would you believe I found it.

I FOUND THE ANSWER TO MY FRUSTRATION! Yippee!!!!!!

I came upon a little HTML software editor called CoffeeCup. They have been in existence for a while now, since '96, but I had never heard of them before. I downloaded the trial software and two days later....did you hear me, I said 2 DAYS LATER...I have a web page, of sorts.

Tomorrow I will purchase the software (now that I know I can use it.) Next step...to get the other 150 pages finished. Oh people, I'm just kidding, I really only have about 10 or 15 more to do to be able to upload it to my server. Half the battle is over. Yippee!!!!!

See ya next time "In the Hayloft",