My World Came Crashing Down Around Me Last Night
Last night I thought my world was coming to an end! I was working on a new website for someone and I made a HUGE error when transferring all the files. I actually sent the latest version of Wordpress to THE ALOPECIAN MUSE by accident. I still have an older version, so the new version wiped everything out. I couldn’t believe I did that. I was mortified. When was the last time I backed up my site? UH…when my very good friend (who, by the way saved my ass last night!) showed me how to back it up.
In a panic and while not thinking clearly I called her crying. I thought I had completely erased four months of work. Poof, it was gone. Well, being the Master Jedi that she is, she was able to poke around and she found the data base. I didn’t wipe it all out.
I tried to sleep but I couldn’t. I tried to do anything to get my mind off the fact that I totally fucked it all up, but it just gnawed at my brain like a rabid, blood thirsty rodent. My stomach was in knots and I felt like I was going to throw up. I got back online last night and there was my friend making everything better. I had all kinds of shit running through my head last night. I wanted to just give it all up and say screw it, I’m no good at this stuff! (That wouldn’t be far from the truth either).
I feel the picture on the left best describes my state of mind last night. I felt shocked, naked, exposed and totally alone. That is until I talked to my Master Jedi! She definitely calmed me down and brought a lot of encouragement to me. I am so glad to have her in my life.
Today I felt that all was right in my world again, and to sweeten it just a little more, my husband called this afternoon to tell me that we hit our first goal amount of money to get him home! I want to thank everyone who gifted us with your generous donations. We are still around $1,000.00 short, but as of today we are half-way there. Tomorrow he will be putting his notice in and he will be here in New Mexico with us in four to five weeks…for good!
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I’m Traveling Into Uncharted Territories
I’m traveling into uncharted territories which has me scared shitless and at the same time thrilled as though I’m going on some sort of sky diving trip. So what is this adventure that I am going on? Well, it is the mysterious world of Drupal. Drupal has me intrigued, perplexed and it leaves me coming back like a junky strung out on heroin. I can not even effectively put into words what Drupal is, except that it is an extremely powerful management system for creating dynamic websites.
I have hung around the forum at www.drupal.org and watch a lot of their tutorials, but I feel like some sort of voyeur getting all turned on by the power of this system as they talk about different features and functions. Can you tell that I’m getting addicted, yet I haven’t even sampled the product yet! Why does the thought of this system intrigue me so? I have extremely limited amount of knowledge in computers and forget about knowing anything that has to do with html, PHP or any kind of code.
The reason I’m considering going this route is a few business opportunities I have cooking on the back burner. I need this kind of management system to handle the type of work I’m venturing into. But I feel like I’ll be opening a huge can of worms or get in over my head delving into this. What if I can’t do it? OOO, but I want to try! If anyone reading this post has knowledge or experience in Drupal, leave a comment for me and tell me what your experience has been. After I finish this post and a post over on Simmi’s site, I’m going to be downloading all the necessary stuff needed to run Drupal and start building a site. I don’t know what is going to happen, but I should at least give it a shot.
Four months ago I would have never imagined that I would enjoy the art of web design. I got this cool template maker and that is how I was introduced to Drupal. I created a Drupal template and really got hooked. I also created a Wordpress template as well. I fell in love with all the details and options…but I want more. I want to learn how to bend a template to my will and make it do things I want.
Here is a screen shot of a Wordpress template that I made:
And here is a Drupal template that I made:
Now mind you these two templates are only my first bash at creating something but I really like doing it. Maybe if I get good at it, I will consider doing some sort of work helping to create templates for other people. I have become a template whore. Should I be concerned?
