This is What's Up...

I keep having to remind myself that this is a journal to show the process of getting this project up and running and not just an 'interesting articles' blog.  I figure no one wants to read the ups and downs...at least they won't until it's finished and becomes a huge success ha ha.  But regardless, I need the therapeutic activity and reconnect that writing this blog brings me.

So right now I'm debating on what I want to program my website in.  I have always used Frontpage and html.  But I feel it is time to open up to PHP, MySQL, and possibly using different web editing programs.  This is why I actually chose to make it a year before I opened the site - I could have slapped together a site in no time, but this needs to be professional and I have to expand my knowledge on how to do that.  My husband bought me A Brain-Friendly Guide Head First PHP & MySQL - hopefully this giant book will limit those moments of having to close my eyes and lay my head in my hands making sense of what I just read, translating everything to code. 

Programming is like a big fun puzzle that everyone can do, but most people won't or do not want to.  Which makes it all the more appealing!  Programming mechanical gizmos and creating a website is slightly different considering what I put into my coding won't have to move mechanisms 'in real life' it just has to function on the site itself...and yet somehow it can be just as frustrating and time consuming.  Especially since I'm alone in this.  I have clued very few people as to what the site is truly about.

The first thing I need to learn is how to call up a random item from a pre-fabbed list.  Then it'll be time to expand on that knowledge to make it functionally fabulous...pray for me.

Ha ha.

And by the way, I now have officially less than a year to get this puppy hoppin'.  Here we go...

Love & Gratitude,
Erica Nicole

P.S.  If any of my former English teachers and writing teachers read this - forgive the sentence fragments and such!  Feel free to print a copy out and send it to me with red marks.  I love you all!