I used to work in television and now I make websites. Perhaps that is the way it ought to be because television is headed to online as television audiences become massively more fragmented and as more and more people find easier ways to connect to the Internet at something approaching decent speeds.
Decent. That means you're not doing 56k dialup. It means websites load all at once. It means you're able to get content from the Internet that includes video and audio that does not stutter, drop frames and look overly cartoonish due to compression.
Frankly, as someone who worked for 25 years in television, everything on the internet makes really crummy VHS look good. And I have a fair amount of experience in high-definition as well as our previous US television standard.
I now have three websites under my belt—four if you count my own. I am still working on learning php and, if anyone knows how to reliably set up a testing server on a Macintosh running a Power PC chip, I'd surely love to know how to set up a mySQL database with php without making my computer unsafe to run.
I did buy a good book on Dreamweaver. It goes through the steps but the MAMP software has changed so much that the book is now incorrect. Anyone want to help?
I do like Dreamweaver. You can work in code or you can just put the page together using the Design view and it won't create bad code. It also checks for compatibility with browsers that won't run on a Mac, like Microsoft's Internet Exploder. And that is a great feature.
I can't buy Dreamweaver CS4. It won't run on my venerable G4-400 that I purchased in 1999. I did upgrade the processor and put 1.5G of system RAM into it. My Venerable G4 is proving the concept that, if you buy a Macintosh and you buy one that is not trailing-edge, you will pay less over the years of service for your Apple computer than you will anyone else's. Today's Intel-based Apple computers run Microsoft's operating system faster than anything comparable made by anyone else. There's so much innovation at Apple that I still recommend their stock.
My clients are really happy with the websites I made them. One of them has a "contact" form that took me three days of noodling and internet searching to build. Now, I can make a contact form in a snap by simply copying and pasting code with Dreamweaver. That's hot.
I sure hope this political situation sorts out. In Washington, DC you have these Republicans posturing that they'll stop any government spending aimed at helping the main mass of people out. Seems Republicans only want to help out the rich guy. Frankly, if I were a rich guy, I'd be happy to be helped out. But it would bother me if government help was impoverishing others. I've seen too much poverty in my life to want to see the United States play host to that kind of lifestyle for most of the wage earners.
Republicans are telling everyone that this stimulus bill "spends too much." Gee, they must think we're pretty dumb because they were all-too happy to pass non-budgeted bills to make war in Iraq and waste millions and trillions of taxpayer dollars fixing up Iraq. They seem to think we have forgotten how happy they were to spend back when Bush was running things.
I suppose it's always the Party in Opposition that wants to be "fiscally-conservative." But that's not true, either. The Hoover administration wanted to be fiscally-conservative during the Great Depression. And his party backed him while they were in power. Problem is, that didn't work out so well for most Americans.
My mother, who was born in 1930, wanted me to learn how to do hard work. She had me working in restaurants when I was in high school. It built character and was always something I could fall back on. Well, I understand restaurants these days. And if this business of making websites doesn't pan out, I suppose I could always wait on tables or wash dishes.
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