Surfacing

Drove with the window down for the first time yesterday. Already seems like ages ago.

I've been deeply immersed for days in developing my new website. Wanted to do this for several years, but the intense curve of relearning HTML and CSS always intimidated me. I finally attacked it out of necessity to post a web page for non-LJers about An Elegant Path.

My old evaluation copy of HomeSite broke, so I've been playing with Nvu, a stand-alone HTML editor developed from Mozilla Composer. Unfortunately it doesn't do frames, the only method I understand how to embed LJ. The S2 style I want doesn't include a website link, so I had to put an icky menu frame across the top. Does anyone know how to add a link to an S2 layout?

Also complicated, but more fun, I've used JAlbum to create a series of galleries. Surprising how many photos fall under dominant themes: sky, ice, reflections, textures. I'm infatuated with plays of light.

You can check out the site: vanwaffle.com. So far I have home, poetry, journal and photo pages set up. The rest is yet to come. I'm obsessed. This is Galatea, coming to life and taking over.