The Web Site

Early this month I purchased a website editing programme to give to my father for his birthday.  I thought that he might get a kick out of planning and putting together a website.  Beloved B saw what I was planning on buying and asked if I would get a copy for him as well.  Of course, once he got his hands on it, Beloved B wanted me to install the progamme on my computer and try it out and then give him feedback.  Initially I thought that I might redo the Pegasus Creations website and I spent some time picking out a template and playing with the pages, fitting in my own work and headings.

I put together a new draft heading, edited the images as headings.  I started to work on the formmail and the technical aspects of making it work and looked at the possibilities of embedding a photo album into the page.  Then a funny thing happened.  I looked at the page and thought "I like this but I don't think that I like it enough to replace my existing page, which I still really like."

There are other factors as well.  
The new page is developed from a template and I am replacing replacing images and using predetermined colours.  My existing website is one I developed from scratch.  I picked the colours and layout and made it work myself.  
The new page is WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editing.  No technical skills are required.  The existing website was built with a mixure of WYSIWYG and HTML coding.  I taught myself the technical skills that I needed and if I did not know something I researched it and figured it out.  Sometimes I even saw features in other websites and knowing that the feature would work well in mine, I found out how to do it and incorporated it in.

In a nutshell, the new look website is a good site but I am not going to use it.  I quite simply like the old one too much and I am not getting the same sense of satisfaction putting it together.  However, the programme I am using is a good one and I do have another project in mind for it.  In the meantime, I have tested out the programme for Beloved B and he can now get on with his own project.