{"id":734,"date":"2006-01-14T17:31:48","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T17:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/thinking-out-loud-where-do-i-go-from-here\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:05:05","slug":"thinking-out-loud-where-do-i-go-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/thinking-out-loud-where-do-i-go-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking out loud: Where do I go from here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything I have done on my web site, I have taught myself (scary &#8211; and it shows!)&nbsp; I have tried to learn the basics of Dreamweaver to create a few simple intro pages.&nbsp; Also, I have taken advatage of provided HTML &#8220;cut and paste&#8221; to integrate things like Bloglines blog roles and Furl Bookmarks.&nbsp; I have even loaded some wonderful Open Source CMS products on my server including <a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.org\/\">Moodle<\/a> (I love it!) and <a href=\"http:\/\/drupal.org\/\">Drupal <\/a>(I really love it!).&nbsp; So, here I sit trying to figure it all out.&nbsp; Where do I go from here?<\/p>\n<p>At my stage of &#8220;learning&#8221; about web design, I am at a fork in the road.&nbsp; Do I push forward creating a basic (dull) web site on my own with Dreamweaver?&nbsp; Or, do I take advantage of the power and functionality of one of the Open Source tools?&nbsp; I know the answer, but . . . <\/p>\n<p>Since right now I want a web site to act as my online education journal, I want to concentrate on ways to easily add content.&nbsp; Therefore, I will likely set aside using Dreamweaver and work on customizing Drupal.&nbsp; At this stage for me, using Dreamweaver feels a bit like reprogramming Word everytime I want to write a letter.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know nearly enough about Dreamweaver (or web development for that matter) to take full advantage of its advanced capabilities.&nbsp; However, I am sure I will continue to tinker with Dreamweaver and other development software as it has been a great way to learn about the workings of a web page.&nbsp; That just won&#8217;t (for now) be my primary way to create content for my site.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything I have done on my web site, I have taught myself (scary &#8211; and it shows!)&nbsp; I have tried to learn the basics of Dreamweaver to create a few simple intro pages.&nbsp; Also, I have taken advatage of provided HTML &#8220;cut and paste&#8221; to integrate things like Bloglines blog roles and Furl Bookmarks.&nbsp; I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,168,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-site-issues-general","category-technology-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}