Agenda

I am literally still awake from last night (it's right at 8am)! One of our players had to go out of town and didn't know it until he got off work last night and he doesn't know when he expects to return, so it doesn't look like we'll get to play today. The other player and I sat-up all night while I taught him HTML - as much as I could, that is. And he did learn something, though I'm not sure how much.

If everything works-out right, he tentatively agreed to a kind of internship. He's going to use his newfound HTML skills helping me with the site, and I am going to show him how to run a website. I'm no teacher and I'm still learning, myself, but I know HTML well and know at least enough about webmastering and design to get him started. Because it is so early in the D&D campaign, I plan to assign him those pages and we'll work from there. A lot of the information is little more than lists at this point and I can incorporate his work into larger page designs, so it's a win-win situation.

Now, don't tell him, but my goal is to get him to finish the Cyberpunk Glossary. The original source code was first done in Dreamweaver, then ported into another GUI when I quit using DW, and it's a real mess! Honestly, the project is too tedious for an experienced webmaster to spend all his time on, and it's the perfect opportunity for a new HTML coder to learn from, so again, it's a win-win situation.

Whomever gets stuck with the unenviable task is going to have to sift through tons of code and make corrections, and we're talking complete overhaul-type stuff! It's a fantastic chance for a n00b to really dig-in and gain some of that hands-on experience and it will free-up my time to focus on other areas. All he is going to do is format the text in HTML; I may see if it can be done in RTF, but if that's the case, I'll take care of that and set him to work on some other HTML-heavy project.

Anyway, I'm literally nodding-off here and he's long since gone home and (I assume) to bed, so I'm just telling you this because I'm about to test the scheduled posting. If it's still not working, you aren't likely to see anything today - if you do, it will probably start late, late this afternoon or even tonight.

But the really cool news is that we may have finally brought someone into The Weirding fold! This means I'll have more time to work on everything else. And I plan to make The Weirding one of the coolest places in both worlds (virtual and non-). Having another HTMLer on-hand means more new content sooner, as well as vast improvements to existing pages. There's only so much one man can do, and I'm fricking pooped!

Testes. One, two... three!?

© C Harris Lynn, 2009