When it comes right down to it,anyone wanting to build a website with an online store or anything out of the normal human capabilities
must depend on someone who does indeed have the skills and the aptitude to do such a chore.
However when you must depend on an archaic form of code such as html( hyper text markup language for those who really did not want to know what it was) and you do not have the luxury of someone who can do this form of the computer world’s many languages, you are stuck. You either learn it your self to best of your abilities or you sit and rant and possibly even throw bits here and there. I was the earlier and although I have been the latter at times in my younger days, I am not now. What am I saying here? I now have an online bookstore to help in the sales of my children’s books and later other goodies that will be for sale in this new bookstore.
The troublesome coding and graphics formatting that I had to do was not only frustrating, but on the positive, most educating. That even though programs like Adobe DreamWeaver are state of the art, they are just the same subject to the codes that are being written by the people who must program this massive workhorse. Cudos to those behind the scenes. I do like the app despite its flaws.
On top of that, when you are setting things up at the beginning of a new site I found that it sometimes does not keep your settings until you hit it with a hammer several times. So I finally took out my hammer and simply scared it a bit.It then by some magical universal stroke of luck and a lot of trial and error and some guessing as to what the code actually meant, worked.
All I wanted to do was make the images that come up in the shopping cart show up in a reasonable size so they would not take up a ton of space on the receipt. It took two and half days to decipher this problem and to my surprise it was because when DW wants an image to be placed into the default image folder it puts it somewhere else, maybe,causing the designer to hunt down the image in other folders throughout the entire site folder.
I will continue to use DW for future sites because it is still the one to use if you don’t want to have learn a bunch of computer gobbledy gook and just get to work if you want to make a customized site. Most others that do have their place mind you are template based.
So here’s to Adobe DW for helping me sell my children’s books. I salute you.
And now for those who read this go buy my books. School is starting. Birthdays are happening.A Gift for a special Friend. Christmas is coming. Make up a reason. Whatever it takes.
Everyone deserves to read great books. They aren’t blood and guts. They are the quality that should be out there. Just as there are many others who are also doing their best to promote themselves. Check them out to. The advantage here ,as opposed to any other big chain online bookstore, you can ask for your books to be autographed. I think that is a cool thing. Go to www.tewatsononline.com/bookstore.html to check em out. Buy one buy several . It’s a great thing to do.
Take Care and Be Well
All The Best,
Award Winning Children’s Author T.E.Watson FSA Scot
T.E.Watson
I looked you up tonight because I had so much fun reading your book about the dragon to my little grand-nephew. He’s only four and did much whirling around and jumping while I read. For all the world it did not seem as though he was paying any attention save for an occasional moment when he would dash over, lean in really close and inspected whichever illustration was open. The language was fun and fluid and lent itself to performing different voices. Perhaps you remember his grandmother and grandfather at the Scottish fairs in California. The book was inscribed by you and is cherished.
Fondly,
Auntie Katrina