After I completed last week’s post, I thought a bit more about the Path to Knowledge. (You could scroll down a bit and read last week's post first. I'll wait until you do that.) I made it sound like it was a linear journey to a destination. I assure you, it is far from linear. The journey is filled with dead ends, detours, construction delays, pit stops and manifold impediments along the way. And loops; detours that take you off in an unexpected direction and then return you right to where you started. A recent experience illustrates that path.
I recently completely re-envisioned my website. As the primary method for distributing photographs and stories my website looked a little bit dated. (Actually my daughter said, "Daddy, the nineties called and they want their web site back.")
The biggest task was figuring out what my web site should do, what it should look like and how the audience should experience it. I really didn’t want to re-learn HTML to code the site, so I downloaded Adobe Muse and used it to layout the design and experiment with the functionality of the site. It took me about a week to figure out how to use this very clever piece of software. Then I was off and creating with a product that allowed me to quickly evaluate various designs and features of my web site. I did this right up until Adobe announced it was ending support for the product. Oh, well.
After a lot of whining, pouting and mental foot dragging, I buckled down and re-learned enough CSS and HTML5 and hand coded my website using the concepts I created in Muse. Now the website sports a responsive design and looks great on an iPad. The creative journey is definitely not linear and far from over.
I’ll keep in touch by sending you additional postcards along the way.
The Apothecary Shop on Duke of Gloucester Street in Colonial Williamsburg.
On another note, if you haven't arrived here from my website, I have a new project on the home page. Here's a link to get there.
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