Many years ago, well back in the days of 2009, I had decided to design my own website, I bought Dreamweaver and plodded along creating a website, but due to my lack of knowledge, incompetence or the incompetence of my chosen website provider the website failed to work, hence this blog site, which I am very happy with. However, this need of mine to create a website as never gone away, next week I will be starting a Web Design Course and eventually a Graphic Design Course (Adobe Photoshop) though I am having to purchase a Windows based computer, probably a brand spanking new Toshiba or Sony Vaio, I’ll see what deals there are, I’ll still be keeping this MacBook, as I have a great fondness (love) for the machine, but for the types of courses I’ll be pursuing through out the year personal access to a Windows based machine is essential, I have my Microsoft Certified Business Course later in the year, which if I pass I’ll be certified as a Microsoft Office Specialist and a Microsoft Applications Specialist, if I pass the courses I’m hoping they lay the groundwork for a job within the IT, or Web Design, industry, I would like to be capable of designing apps for the iPhone and iPad also, but time will tell if I achieve such an ambition. I have been, over the past few weeks creating pages for an online comic book, until yesterday when my lack of concentration ruined an entire page, of hard work, and I have had to start again, which is a massive shame but at the same time I can correct a few things I was originally disappointed with. It’s a complex comic book adventure, one I have been struggling with for the past year, or more, but I think I have nailed the ideas I am wishing to transmit from brain to page, hopefully at least, if of course my brain works. Due to the (Inter)National Script Writing competition in April I can hopefully present my script, converting it from comic book form into a screenplay for the competition, it’s another quest I have undertaken for myself this year, as well as finishing off the novel begun in November.
I am under no delusions that I will ever be able to write as a profession, but writing, and illustration, are things I enjoy, I kind of think of all those people that would like to be rock stars but only manage to play small venues, local public houses for example, you don’t see them not pursuing their dreams, or not happily pursuing the things that they love, doing stuff for money is not what life should be about, though I could argue that it’s better to have a job doing something you enjoy than having a job doing something you have no interest in or hate. I would love to be a writer, making enough cash to be comfortable, to write books, comic books, TV and movie scripts, but I have to remain realistic, my goals are perhaps achievable if of course I have the talent, the motivation and the luck, we all have goals we would like to achieve, right?
But anyways I have been bashing out words for the creation of my website idea this morning, and if I am able I’ll be designing the website before the end of the year, November is my target, I’m at my most happy, when conscious, when I’m sat at this keyboard conjuring forth words, and trying to make them make sense, I’ll never give up being a writer, I’ll never stop writing comic books, or illustrating, badly, comic books, this is my life, I realise that now. My hobby. My passion, if you like.
I’m sure the Web Design Course will be difficult, for me, though I did well in my exams for the Microsoft Office Course I completed last year, I’m not convinced I’ll find web design easy, I’m hoping I’ll learn lots from the course and be able to design websites for fun once completed. At the moment this is my number one goal, it’s important, I think, to have them, goals, otherwise what’s the flaming point in anything?
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