I'm playing with trying to build my own website. Don't know if I hate this or love it. Somehow it fascinates me--maybe because it's such a challenge. It reminds me in a lot of ways of the process of learning to write a novel. You think you have everything right, then look at it as a whole again and find that all your 'cells'--or in the case of writing, your chapters--no longer 'fit' like you wanted them, too.
On the web page you're working on, your cells changed shape or size for some mysterious reason known only to the programming God. In some previous chapter, a current 'twist' you weren't expecting either created a hole in earlier logic or made something the character did or said seem out of whack with what has happened now. (And you're the only writing God who can fix it.)
Why is it that once you start actively writing, everything somehow begins to apply and compare to writing?
And why am I trying to learn to create my own webpage? Probably--besides being cheap--I'm a control freak. I want to control everything about it. I think it's the exact same thing that appeals to me about writing in general. It's creative and yet relies totally on logic. Except for the occasional frustrations, I'm having fun.
Right now, I'm using the trial version of Dreamweaver, trying to decide if I want to buy it. If you have experience with that and/or with Frontpage, I'd love any feedback you have before I make the decision about which program to buy.
