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[telophase]

There's a website that I am behind on populating with text. I was go0ing to be doing that today, but progressively felt worse and worse and finally realized it was withdrawal symptoms because I'd forgotten to take my Strattera today, hitting me extra-bad today for no known reason*. Urg.

Went ahead and took one, as I was feeling bad enough (I will just take my next one later than usual tomorrow), and I think instead of staying up late tonight with the site I need to be adding stuff to, I will take to bed early and listen to Terry Pratchett audiobooks until I fall asleep, and work on the site tomorrow.

Sigh.


* Entirely possible sniff-testing the Violette Market scents did something - some scents give me weird reactions and I wouldn't put it past them to intensify these withdrawal symptoms: light-headedness and faint nausea. At any rate, the residual scent from the bag is not making my sitting here at my desk any more fun and I need to be away from it.

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[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Aww sorry, feel better soon.

[chomiji]

Aww! Feel better!

light-headedness and faint nausea

[mustangsally78.livejournal.com]

I felt like that for the past week. I assumed I was fighting off something. Or stress. Stress makes a monkey out of me.

And I know that when I'm stressed, I get headaches which makes me take NSAIDs which tear up my stomach. The circle of fun never ends.

What a drag it is getting old.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Much better this morning.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Much better this morning.

Re: light-headedness and faint nausea

[telophase.livejournal.com]

So far the NSAIDs like ibuprofen don't do anything evil to me, but naproxen sodium makes my feet swell up like footballs. :/

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Glad you are feeling better. What kind of stuff do you use to code your website? I taught myself HTML in the late 90's but I haven't touched anything since and got a really rude awakening when I tried to make a simple little website. Any suggestions for a good book to reteach myself website stuffs? It isn't a big priority at the moment, but I feel like m chances of getting a better job would be a little higher if I understood more. (and I just sort of miss having a cute website!)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

This isn't my website, but an anime convention I'm redoing the site for. So I'm constrained to use a content management system (CMS) that I'm not used to called Big Medium.

What I usually do for websites at the moment is use Wordpress - it's a blogging system which can be hammered into use as a CMS. I like the ease with which I can add content to the site without having to code a whole new page up, and how I have the freedom to design the look of the thing or just find a theme that someone else has designed for me. I run www.condfw.org, magatsu.net, projectbluerose.com, and the TCU library blogs off of it.

You *do* have to keep on top of WP upgrades, as it's popular enough that as soon as a hole is found in the code, hackers try to exploit it. If you set up frequent backups -- there are plugins for that, as there are plugins for everything -- even getting hacked isn't a huge problem as you can easily torch the site and rebuild it.

ETA: If you get into developing themes and things for WP, sleary has a book, Beginning Wordpress 3 (http://sillybean.net/books/beginning-wordpress/), out. If you just want something really basic, Googling for "wordpress tutorials" and "getting started with wordpress" will be quickest. :) It's a free, open-source platform, so you can download it easily.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Lol. Ooops. I thought you were talking about the 1 day gift site. Thanks for the book rec. I'll look into it.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I need to do that one, too, but I'd promised to have this particular one done by Dec 1st. :D

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Ok. Better get to it! :P