Week 5

WordPress is kind of a pain in the side. There is so much you can’t do! Before I started using HTML and CSS, I had used WordPress before, I was fine with it.  It was the best option for me at the time; it gave me a lot more flexibility than any other CMS and I could use it for free. Now, though, I can use CSS to make everything exactly how want it to look. It’s a little tricky editing CSS in pre-styled themes that don’t have detailed comments, so if something’s not to your liking, you either suck it up or attempt to find it in the CSS editor and risk making your website do really weird things. I’ve been sticking with the former, and even though my sites look decent, there’s so much more I want to do.

Oh, well. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m impatient, and WordPress is a much faster alternative to coding a website entirely using HTML and CSS, so that somewhat makes for the limited customization, and it’s pretty easy. Besides, like I mentioned earlier, it’s not like my sites are simple or not aesthetically pleasing. They’re just not what I want, and it’s been a little frustrating.

In my Week 2 post, I mentioned “Trusting the Process,” and I tried to trust the process of my journey with WordPress. It was a little disappointing. At this point, I just want to get a huge cup of coffee, play some R&B jams, and get back to HTML.