Jun 25

· Elle's World, isn't elle bright?

I have a strict don’t talk about work policy.  This goes for any work that someone else pays me for.  It could be as small as a header for a blogger or as big as what I do for the church.  Not that what I do for the church is all that big.  But I am going to go out on a limb and talk about work.  Mainly to procrastinate what I should really be doing, but a little as a stress reliever.  Because oh my hell it is slowly killing me.

Last month we got a virus in our church web site.  Because I’m not a true coder I didn’t catch it until after the major damage was done.  Sadly, everything was lost.  Luckily I was preparing to change the site and saved most of the content.  Now my task is to rebuild what was once a functioning website into something that is now a spectacular functioning website.  (please insert jazz hands and sparkle right….here)

Problem is… I’m not a coder.  I’m a graphics person.  See this website.  I did that.  Ok, I did the graphics.  Some dude elsewhere did the coding.  See.  I’m a shiny graphics person.

With the church I am the do it all person.  I don’t have the time (and don’t get paid enough) to bust out 100% original code so I’m using bits and pieces I have laying about.  Because doesn’t everyone have spare code on their computers.  Problem is, bits and pieces don’t work together and then I go and screw something up and have to start all over.  It is really chapping my ass.  I have redone this site 14 times and eff it up every time.  Worse yet, I gave myself a deadline of August 1 to have it finished.  Where will I be August 1?  Out of the state.  Cause I’m smart like that.

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One Response to “The website that will surely kill me”

  1. Amy on June 25th, 2008 5:26 pm

    elle,

    can you email me so i can ask you about how much you would charge to help me with a website?

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