Dreamweaver

Today I learned an itty-bitty bit about how to make a webpage using Adobe Dreamweaver (I have a handout entitled "How to weave the website of your dreams," but only because the Inscape advisor has a sense of humor). I learned the basics of inserting text, and I know how to fiddle my way through modifying tags for text, background, and other simple stuff like that. The biggest stumbling block I've found is that I don't speak abbreviation. I know how to fiddle with tags, provided I know what the darn tag is. When there are fifteen three-letter-or-less abbreviations starting with A, that isn't a good sign for the uninitiated.

But I'm sure I'll get better. Even if I'm not on the web staff this semester, next semester is completely web, so I'll have to learn fast.

I Lost My Mind on Page 4

Editing does funny, funny things to my thought process. And to my control of my mouth. And to the way I read things, especially to how I read them aloud. Most recently, I've been trying to catch up on the first chapters of the revision of two friends' science fiction novel. It's much better than it was before, but certin issues have carried over from the original. Namely, cliched descriptions of pain and awareness, and a tendency to avoid the word "said" as if it were...well, something very, very smelly.

But the newest development is the most inventive use of semi-colons I have ever seen in my life. It blows my mind. Sometimes, I can spend at least five minutes trying to understand why a semi-colon is present in a sentence. Only to give up with no more enlightenment than I started. I'm trying to figure out if it's my fault or not. During the first draft, I advocated comma rights and tried to get them to back off on the run-on sentences. One of my suggestions was the use of semi-colons. I don't know if this phenomenon is due to that or due to the fact that one of them caught semi-colon fever and infected the other with it as well. Worst part is, I don't even know how to address the problem, because I don't understand their logic in many of the uses.

0.0 I don't know.