Brainshambles

It’s Moody Monday, and I’m spending my precious moments of peace and quiet reading about fold web design. The topic instantly throws me into a reminisce, remembering my early days of rugged HTML coding, hot pink and black graphic designs, and ridiculously obnoxious “layouts”. I remember when blogging started to really pick up. We were all so obsessed with showing off our “new layouts”. I spent hours upon hours after school teaching myself rudimentary code. Hours and hours I spent…and then there were the wars. Moody pubescent webmasters and webmistresses…starting wars with one another. Stealing source code, making hate sites.  And, side note here – who takes “Visual Basic” as an elective Sophomore year of high school? Nerdy moody brainshamble-y girls named Katelyn, I guess.

I sort of regret wasting time trying to learn Dreamweaver. Too bad nobody from the future could have sneaked in a dream and said, “Katelyn, it’s ok that you don’t like this program. Nobody will use Dreamweaver in 2011″. What I do not regret, ever, is starting this journey. I don’t regret the hours I spent listening to silly music and making millions of “splash” pages. (PS – Future Katelyn would also tell Past Katelyn that “splash” pages are generally a waste of time, too). Millions of downloads, millions of thoughts, millions of little images I spent days making, but never saved. There was a time, a year or so ago…when I could google the names of old webpages I ran and remnants of my past would still show up in the search. Thankfully, it seems most of that ancient material has disappeared. I wish I would have been wiser in those early years…I wish we had flash drives, and I’d saved all the art I’d ever made.

But wishes won’t wash dishes.

So I must be what I wish to seem.

And the beat goes…