I took Linda to the airport this morning. She is off to go do her Nephrology thing in Colorado. So the next few days I am able to sit down and do some other things such as work on my site. This morning the traffic to the airport was particularly hellish and not a lot of fun, but we got there.
The downside of this was builder was having a seminar on its builder program. Anyway, I ended up missing about the first half hour of the event which was too bad because I ended up learning a bit about how to make it work and regret not being able to watch the entire thing. I will say the guys that with these things together really do their stuff and they are really going out of their way to make it usable to a variety of people who like myself are probably not all that interested in developing code. One of the things I was hoping to do was develop a page in Artisteer which I also own and bring the page template into builder, but I don’t think that is going to happen. The workaround is of course to develop the layout in Artisteer, and then bring it into builder. More geeky than I had hoped to be at this stage of my life, but so be it.
The reason I am mentioning this of course is because I said that I’m going to be using this in a real-time real live site, and of course if you are reading this right now, it is pretty easy to see that the new look is not there. The bottom line is what I was designing was really ugly and that really was not my intention. So I’m going to give it a bit more work time and effort and the goal being to have something that looks passable and then build from there, no real pun intended. Although it is safe to say that’s what these guys have in mind when they developed it in the first place.
Anyway, lest you think that I am just screwing around and dicking off, this is not entirely the case. I spent just about all day yesterday playing around with the thing, and then and only then did I check my e-mail to learn that they were putting on a seminar to teach the basics of how to think about using their program, technically a theme, but you get the idea. And App. is a widget, is a program, by any other name. it is all about the context. In a physical sort of way.
One thing that really impresses me about the Ithemes folks, is they really go out of their way to interact and help their customers. It is really quite inspiring to see the effort these guys put into what they’re doing. I’ve never seen anything quite like this in the Internet world, so it is quite cool and appreciated.
It also gives me a few ideas about what to do with my martial arts group, in terms of membership and all that sort of thing. All in all, a very good morning so far.
