Last night and early this morning was a bonanza in frustration. I finally bowed to my friend's wishes and became potentially the last living person in my age bracket to put up a "MySpace" account.
Compared to setting up my blogs hosted here, I had to enlist the help of two friends online just to even figure out how to get a friends list started. The computer was bogging down as well, as I had to have six windows open at the same time so I could compare messages, sites, and my own bumbling attempts to get the page started.
In the end, getting the basic information on the page was a snap compared to trying to customize the looks of the page. Three hours and one very sore back later, I threw in the towel, though I'll go back to working on it once I'm done with this entry.
Supposedly, you can do a lot with design modifications & appearance on your page. But my downfall obviously is my lack of knowledge when it comes to HTML coding on the computer. This seems hard to picture, given that I worked computers long before other members of the family (1979). From the looks of yesterday, it seems my knowledge got bypassed and left in the dust since that time.
Setting up preferences & appearances on this blog were infinitely easier, and yet four months passed before I finally figured out the tricks of the trade, and made this page look like it does today. I don't like bland things; I am more into colorful, almost borderline psychadelic colors (though I don't wear shirts like that; breathe easy).
I just don't understand how certain sites out there can preach ease of comprehension in modifying a page's look; doubly so when you can't find the help you'd look for in a tutorial because they haven't been written yet. I spent an hour just trying to figure out how to apply my modifications... The towel was thrown soon after.
If sites like MySpace want to give everyone the impression that "you're hip if you sign up", and "anyone can make the page reflect their personality", you'd think they'd make allowances for those with the simpler personalities, such as mine, to have a fighting chance at design success.
Just because vanilla ice cream happens to be my favorite, doesn't mean its perceived blandness applies to other areas of my life. I would only hope for a better experience this afternoon.
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Fear not, though: on a personal level, all my blogs here will still be maintained. I may post snippets on MySpace, but Blogger came first, and I have a good library of material here, so I will stay put for sure.
