You might remember that I mentioned the website I’m creating for our new business venture. It’s taken me about a million ten times longer than it might take a professional web designer, but most of the kinks are gone now, along with a good number of my brain cells.
It’s fair to say I won’t be curing cancer anytime soon.
If you’d asked me what language I wanted to learn, I’d have said Italian. Not CSS. Or HTML. And I’m far from fluent. In fact, if there was an actual country where they spoke CSS, I couldn’t do much more than order a margarita and ask directions to the bathroom. (And really, who needs much more than that on vacation?)
Still, in the last couple of weeks, I’ve come a long way, baby.
This morning at Starbucks, Mr. H asked how he could access the WordPress dashboard for the site, in case he wanted to add information or edit anything.
You want to what? My stream of thought: Oh my god, he’s going to totally f*ck up all my work.
I suppressed my panic well enough to choke out, “I’ll show you how, but promise me you’ll use the visual editor and stay out of the code editor.” I gave him my I mean business look. Which has little or no effect, I should probably admit.
Mr. H: “Hey, which one of us has been writing in code for years?”
Yes, he’s almost 20 years older than I am, but he claims computer knowledge for which I have no real proof, and yet he expects me to trust him on this?
Me: “Uh, you do know we’re not talking about Morse code, right?”
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Yeah, that’s Morse code for I win.
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it’s the small things, really
I loved this post, and I really loved his comment! HA!
You’re a brave woman with a funny husband.
This past weekend I learned more than I ever want to know about computers. Paul brought a new one – the kicker was the tech he took it to didn’t do half the work he was suppose to. SO…yeah…I decided other than shell out any more money to someone else I would give it a go. Two days later I finally have everything transfered over from the old to the new…I can tell you which size font works best with a certain size screen the works. I think at one point I literally had everything upside down. I had to turn the mouse backwards and tilt my head sideways for about 10 min. to figure out what I did wrong.
So yeah, I’m feeling you on “DON’T Touch that button” mode. If I have to look at anything with a code right now I’ll scream. (Hugs)Indigo
LOL.
CSS? I’m impressed.
Now that you’re done, you have time to write your book: Code Dependent No More
about a year and a half ago, i cried my eyes b/c I was terrified that I would never get this stuff and literally felt paralyzed that I would never work again. Who’da thunk, I could be where I am now. Like you, i am hardly fluent but my God, what a difference a year makes.
Next try ASKII …
Loved Mr H’s comment .. he and Husband would get along well … smartasses both of them
I want to learn Italian too!! And I am also HTML challenged.
i don’t even know you anymore.
But ain’t it grand to know you can talk the talk. I felt the same way learning CSS for WordPress that I felt learning lit crit babble for my PhD. Arcane language only spoken by Those In The Know (because who else would want to).
Yahoo for you and your husband — I’m impressed with your newfound knowledge!
The title really does say it all!
i know nothing about coding. absolutely nothing. so far i’m ok with that. if i ever need it in the future i’ll be sure to call you. or buy the book coding for dummies.
The United States military(civilian job) tried to turn me into and electronics engineer after I graduated with BSE. I ran from the base screaming!!!!
Brava. I cringe at all of it.
Your husband is very funny. And good at code. Apparently.
FYI- Italian its a language , you got it correct.
But CSS and HTML are far away from being a PROGRAMMING language. but extremely closed to a markup language. if a tag based scripting language can’t understand conditionals , loops and arrays etc. than its fair to say , CSS AND HTML ARE NOT A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE.
CAPISH ????