HTML and Exploding Braincells

Alright, now she's done it. She's gone completely stark raving mad!!!! She's even talking about herself in the 3rd person. It must be bad! Aaaarrrrrhhhhhhh......

Perhaps I should begin by making a teeny, tiny confession. I HATE COMPUTERS!!!! Always have and maybe always will. Why? They make me feel like an incompetent idiot. I've always thought they were stupid - but apparently computers can't actually BE stupid, only their operators can!

In fact, I hate computers so much that I was VERY proud of myself when I managed to go all the way through high school without having to do a single computing lesson. Okay, it did have a little to do with switching states and schools and all sorts of reasons. But the end result was that I didn't have to suffer through computer classes at school. I'm old enough that computers in primary schools were a rare commodity but young enough that pretty much all of my peers did at least 6-12 months of computing classes.

Okay, there was 1 lesson at school where I did have to use the dreaded machines. Have you ever noticed how common it is for mathematics teachers to also teach computing? *sigh* If there is one thing I hated MORE than computing - it was maths. I didn't have a lot of hope of avoiding that through high school though! In fact, I seem to remember spending too many lunch-times doing maths as well. *SIGH*. So, my year 9 maths teacher thought he'd be really tricky and teach us maths on the computers!!!! Yeah, that made maths so much more appealling - NOT! Thankfully it lasted the whole of 1 lesson. Phew!

Yes, I know. Computers do have their usefulness. Yes, I'm using one right now. Yes, I wouldn't have made so many wonderful online friends if it weren't for computers. You would have to say my computer and I have settled into a somewhat comfortable love-hate truce. I love to use it but hate it when I can't figure HOW. LOL.

When DH and I bought our first computer, the salesperson assured us that they are completely "idiot proof" and that we couldn't really do anything to our computer to *wreck* it. He was WRONG!!!! Okay, maybe you can reformat it or whatever it is they do but you can certainly lose a lot of STUFF by pushing the wrong buttons. Yeah, I need to do more backing up. Not that he was the *best* of people to give advice about computers - when ours needed fixing it turned out I had more idea of the problem than he did (even though it took him 2 weeks before he'd agree with me). There was a scratch on our disk - see, not everything about computers is *technical*.

Now, where was I heading with this post? That's right. HTML. It does stand for something but I've already forgotten what. LOL. Not that it really matters. All I know is it's some kind of language you can make use of when blogging. Alright, I couldn't stand not remembering so I went back to the post I was reading and it stands for HyperText Markup Language. Yeah, it's all so much clearer to me now! NOT!!! LOL. Well, at least I got the language bit right.

It's all the blogs fault really. At first I was satisfied with actually figuring out how to start a blog. I figured if I could work out how to post what I wanted to say - I'd be happy. WRONG. That kept me satisfied for a while. Then I wanted to add photo's and links etc etc etc.

Now why can't I just be happy with that? Nice and simple right? Fits well with my simple living journey. But NO.... now I want to learn how to use HTML.

And yes, I do blame Snoskred and yes, you can all applaud now (I hope) cos I just typed in my own HTML code (or whatever you call it) to do that link. :-)

I read some of Snoskred's posts about blogging and think "wow, could I do that?" LOL. Recently she did a wonderful post about basic HTML. You can find that post here . Ooh, I just found out that you have to get your "<" around the right way or the link thingy does NOT work. LOL. Or it works but you just get a highlighted full-stop or something that doesn't look quite right. :-)

Well, I think I have just completed my very first HTML lesson. And my brain didn't actually explode. Well no more than usual anyway. :-)

Now - can anyone help me with a simple way to shift my blog page from 2 columns to 3 columns? I've heard it's just a simple matter of changing some HTML. HA!!! That might be simple if you *speak* HTML. But I'm not quite that fluent yet. LOL.

If you notice some strange goings on with my blog in the near future - you'll know I'm going crazy trying to figure out new weird and wonderful things with my newly emerging language. LOL.

Just need to try one more thing.

If you don't have a clue what I was doing - just trying out the way to centre/center text. :-) Yah me! I can do 2 things now. As long as I don't lose the piece of paper that I wrote down Snoskred's instructions on. Of course, that's one of the reasons I had to put the link to her post on here - so I can find it again!

Lot's more to learn but that's enough for today. :-)