Having been taught the bare basics of web editing during my studies, and figuring that anyone who's someone these days nees a website, I made my first website to introduce yours truely 3 to 4 years ago. I had all this cool idea's about how it should be, fading in here, out there, scrolling, mouseovering, err... 'div'ing, and whatnot. Suffice to say that both the lack of time and skill killed much of what I had in mind.
But over time, and more so the last year, the need to update my website has arosen. I mean really, what's the point in having a website if it doesn't show any of your works? So after a few false starts in which I simply couldn't spend the time re-learning webcoding and searching the web for what I needed, I finally pulled through in the last couple of weeks. I even managed to realize my vision on how I wanted to present my works. It has some ancient javascript in there, drowned out by the rest of the sloppy coding, but it gets the job done. So yeah, without further ado: www.yvt.be . It's in dutch, so it won't make sense to the lot of you, but hey, I don't know anyone that'd be able to appreciate/scrutinize my hard work. Next up: getting the thing to actually show up on google when you search for my name.
Wysiwyg also has limitations. It'll work fine for run of the mill stuff, but if you want to do something specific, you still need to get your hands dirty.
Learning HTML just felt like busting my ass to put a column in the right place. I was pretty good at it, better than anyone else in the class but I still couldn't get a website to look the way I wanted it too. And coding is just too abstract for me, laying down all this written symbols, letters and numbers referencing everything else. It really is like learning a new language.
Do you want me to read it and critize it?
Man kids these days are spoilt. When I was at university I had to teach myself LaTeX which basically meant I had to write a program to produce a paper in pdf or ps (because it had lots of integrals and other cool maths that look like shit in word). And that was something I had to do in two afternoons as an aside to the actual work I was doing.
Autocad?! Are you an engineer?