Tinkering with complicated machinery
I’m used to the innards of mechanical and electrical things. As a child I used to watch my dad restoring antique clocks and guns, fixing the car, and plumbing the house. I used to repair cameras before it just became impossible in a small shop. I’m restoring a 37-year-old car and I did computer repair full-time for five years. So when I get a shiny new machine, I can’t resist pulling off the cover plates and looking inside. All my adult life I’ve made a living doing that.
Expression engine is alien to me. There are obviously new concepts to grasp; I love that. I change one little thing, save the change, and see what it does. A picture is developing in my mind – still a bit hazy but it will come clearer as I go. Today I got “extended text” working, so I can make my home page entries shorter and let those who care click on “Read more…”
I just ordered The CSS Anthology, 101 essential tips, tricks, and hacks by Rachel Andrew. Rachel is a skinny, urban web-designer chick with orange hair the color of fall leaves. Why they put her picture on the book page, I don’t know. Do they not want any readers over 30? Then again, after reading the sample chapters, I bought the book, and I’m… over 30.