I’m in the process of setting up a second blog – not a replacement for this one, but a blog I will write in addition to this one. I’ve done it before… as many of you remember, from April to December of last year I had a second blog, then gave it up. This new blog will be a better, bigger deal than the last one.<\/p>\n
For all my new blogs, I want to use the WordPress<\/a> publishing engine. So I’ve been working through a tutorial explaining how to create WordPress themes and templates (those are what give a blog its unique look). As they were laying out the table using CSS, they commented, “Of course, no competent web designer would lay out a site using HTML tables, which should be used only for tabular data.”<\/p>\n Uh-oh. I’ve created some nice looking sites over the past two years – for example, TradiantCAD.com<\/a> and the redesign of my grade calculator<\/a>. But those sites were laid out using HTML tables.<\/p>\n Sounds like I’m incompetent.<\/p>\n Sounds like I need a crash course in CSS, before I even bother with WordPress and its templates and themes. I’ve tried converting existing sites from tables to the CSS model, but the “float” tag and some other CSS elements remain a mystery.<\/p>\n I’m not giving up though. If I got through college having had to pass Calculus III at 8 in the morning, surely I can get this. If I got through grad school programming in languages like Ada which have the most f-d up syntax this side of Mars, surely I can get this.<\/p>\n Tomorrow I’m going to search Amazon for good books on CSS, then go to Bookstar on my lunch break and buy the one that looks the best. I’ll pay about $10 extra not ordering it from Amazon, but I’m too impatient to wait for it to be shipped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m in the process of setting up a second blog – not a replacement for this one, but a blog I will write in addition to this one. I’ve done it before… as many of you remember, from April to December of last year I had a second blog, then gave it up. This new … Continue reading “Incompetent”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}