A Journal of Sorts

Saturday, 6 March 1999

HotDog

I've avoided these web design tools in the past because looking at the GUI and dragging and dropping sections of text and graphics makes me crazy. I want to work with the code so I can see what it is doing. HotDog is a full featured design tool with all the bells and whistles, but I can type in an editor and insert my tags and tables as I see fit, not how the program interprets what it thinks I want to do. Of course, if I ever decide to do anything too fancy, I just might NEED the other kind. hah

Anyway, I'm going to try this for awhile. I can have another window open that will show me the browser view as I work and it has references where I can look up tags and see what attributes go with what. I even have a tag list that makes me wonder what XMP or SUP does. If I get really curious, I can look it up in the built in reference. So far, though, I seem to be content with my simple paragraph and heading and break tags.

I planted the roses today. I dug the holes a little bigger and filled them with new soil. I went to Lowe's to get some manure and found some soil that said it was especially formulated for roses, so I got it. I'm sure that improved the drainage SOME. Too bad we can't afford to replace the backyard. *smile*

I managed to save a perfect square of sod (mostly St. Augustine) for Tom to plant around the yard where he killed the weeds. I priced sod while I was at Lowe's and it was over $4.00 a square. Tom used the dirt out of my holes to fill in some low places along the fence.

While we were sitting out on the back patio, I was very proud when the neighbor across the alley shouted to us, "your yard is looking good!"