Diary of a SubUrban Housewife

htm helllllll

It seems that whatever Chuck has, it's vaguely contagious. He spent untold hours working on his new format. I will take a moment to point out that Chuck actually grasps the concept of html coding. Me, not so much.

He got so fancy with his blog that I decided I needed to tart things up a bit over here. I added my Avon link, a created my (ok somewhat pathetic, but I did it myself so I'm proud of it) logo.

The Avon link involved basic coding. Something I don't really know--beyond knowing kind of what needs to go where to make stuff happen. But I do know how to cut and paste and I guess I understand just enough to be really really dangerous which has enormous potential to muck things up royally.

Then, as if the mucking up isn't bad enough, the result of mucking is grovelling as I now have to beg my husband to fix my boo boos. OK, it's more whining than grovelling, but in either case, it's unpleasant.

Apparently at about 11:30 last night (when I was already really tired) I decided that what would make my page perfect would be if my Spanglemonkey Award was actually a link back to Jo's page. I mean really, why I didn't think of that sooner is beyond me. But I decided at 11:30 last night that this was positively brilliant.

So I went about coding. OK, not really coding, but copying and pasting. I worked on it for at least an hour--one stupid link on one stupid picture. And for the life of me I could not get it to work.

I put a different link that required the same kind of coding directly above it so I could compare key strokes. No luck.

I managed to completely delete my Spanglemonkey award. I managed to link to it somewhere (but I'm not sure where frankly). I practically managed to turn it upside down. But I could not get it to link.

By this time I'm enormously frustrated because I WANT TO DO IT MYSELF!

Finally I decided to leave the extra coding where it was since, though it didn't actually work, it didn't seem to be harming anything, and go to bed. I'd look at it today with fresh eyes--and hopefully I'd think of it before 11:30.

When I got home from work (at 3:30, thank you very much--have I said how much I LOVE my new job lately?????) I decided to have another go at it. I was fresh and somewhat lucid.

So I copied some other code and pasted it directly over the code that was not working. Once again I decided I would go keystroke by keystroke and see what was wrong.

Well, it did not take long. The code should read " < a href..." (ignore the quotes and spaces, I know they don't go there but without them my page does not show up. Ha! What I had was " < a < href..." Duhhhhhhhhhh. So it took me about 2 seconds to fix.

How I could miss that 47 times last night I still don't quite get.

And now it's 11:22, close enough to the danger coding hour, so I will step away the the computer and go to bed.

Good night all.

Posted by beth at April 26, 2005 11:02 PM