Showing posts with label website. Show all posts
Showing posts with label website. Show all posts

08 September 2012

So much writing, so little time

I've started my electronics blogs (two versions, polish and english) quite confident that it'll take just a moment to write most posts - well, for more lengthy ones half an hour... Maybe an hour tops!
Boy, was I in for a surprise ;P

I currently am around publishing half of text I already have prepared for the blogs. I just sit one day with some nice green tea and started writing the tutorial, starting with bare basics of what is needed for soldering and what actually soldering is... Then I went on to describing all tools needed and ones that are just useful... And so on, and on...
I started around 11, finished when it was dark outside with just a few short breaks <_<
It was a bit over 16 pages of standard text.

And it was a week ago.

Certainly I'm not sitting all the time doing it all, but compiling the text to fit the form of blog I chose as a base for my course website, adding photos and translating to english (I wrote this part in polish first, but translating the other way around isn't any bit faster - I already checked that in earlier posts ;P ) takes such a lot of time.

I must say, I admire the people who are blogging for months or years now, and can make shorter or longer posts daily or each second day, with text and pictures, neatly formatted etc...

I just hope to get a grasp of it quite soon to get it moving along much faster soon or it'll take months to complete the tutorial I've planned thus far if just the introductory part takes so long ;P

And I need to get a good camera both for photos and for making vids - maybe I'll get on youtube and publish tutorials in video format too for those who don't like reading and would rather see/hear it all?

I still haven't decided yet what brand/type of camera I want though...

Anyway, I'm done rambling, on to reformatting, adding pictures, translating more ;P

16 August 2012

Oh gods, the pain! ;P

Yeah, setting up blogs and all their options, settings and configurations is a huge pain... ;P 
Fortunately it seems that I'm pretty much done for now, all settings finally set, configs checked, options selected... 
Seems like I'm good to go. ;)

I must note - in my opinion dynamic views suck. 
If they'd allow more customization - what I want to put where on my blog - they could be nice, but if I have to have everything in that right-side-popup-menu it makes it a lot less customizable than standard view, so for now I think I'll stick with it.

Or maybe I simply don't know / don't understand something about those dynamic views?
No idea.
Comment please if you have any idea about it, or if you have similar problems/observations...


Anyway, seems that I'm done with basic setting up (which took me over half day!) and can now go to writing proper posts ;P
Thanks gods for the option of copying settings from one blog to other ;P

If you haven't yet checked them out, now ==> on the right side ==> I've placed links to my other blogs. Probably (like I wrote in earlier post) there will be more in future when I get those first ones really running.

Can't divide attention between too many projects at same time or I won't finish any really ;P

I'm using blogs because I'm too lazy to make proper websites - even though it's a bit of work with all those settings, setting up blogs is still much faster than making a proper website, especially that my PHP is quite rusty... Anyone tried those Google hosting/website making services and can share how does that look?

Now I'm off to translate second post from english electronics blog to polish version.
Yes, interestingly enough even though I'm from Poland, born polish and my native language is polish, I sometimes actually prefer to write in english first and then translate to polish.
While I'm advanced enough in english that I can freely think in it like in my native tongue, it seems that I think slightly differently each of those languages...
And for some uses it's actually preferred ;P

So, cya all, gotta go to translate before it gets too late and I'll have to go to sleep to get up early tomorrow...