Welcome to the Arid Zone - it's been a long, strange trip.

So I'm sitting here listening to a rock band, Vayden, while I try to piece together the outer limits of my life.  Okay maybe not "piece" together..and maybe not my life heh..Actually I"m just working on a website or two and trying to get my l33t 5ki115(tm) up to par. 

I've been working alot with wordpress lately, which I really really like.  Very flexible blog software that you can use as a content management system..basically that means you can set it up and the average user can create, edit, and post things without having to know a lick of code.  (Think places like myspace, mindsay, etc without the advertisements.)  Also you can set it up to be a bona fide web site.

I'll have one up by next week, I'll give you the URL when it is put up.

Anyway I have 3 books on top o' my PC monitor right now, all three here to help me with my previously mentioned l33t 5ki115 (tm).  I have a book on wordpress, which is very helpful, one on learning to use Macromedia Dreamweaver MX (which is now Adobe Dreamweaver 8 cs or something..I'm a bit behind on that program heh) and Adobe Photoshop CS2 for the web. 

The Dreamweaver book and the photoshop book are called Hands On Training and put put by the lynda.com company... Awesome books, probably some of the best software training books I've come across.  They just don't take you through what the programs can do, but show you how to do them and give lessons/examples that take you step by step through each feature.  Plus they come with a cd that shows you how it looks on the software itself..awesome.  I'll be buying more of them I'm sure.

Unfortunately these books take a long time to go through; I'm learning much, but most of the skills will be put to the test on future websites. The ones I am working on now will be good, but I hope to improve them as time goes on.

I think this is the last monitor I"ll have where I can stack 3 100 to 200 plus page books on top of it..I'm planning on getting a new monitor this year. And we all know that CRT monitors are SO 90s heh.  Ah well...

Check this space soon for a couple of website links. I'll let you know when they are up.