I Started Over and I Am a Happy Camper
Mar 8, 2013 17:40:51 GMT -8
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Post by JJ on Mar 8, 2013 17:40:51 GMT -8
Just a tip to some of the folks here that feel like they are spinning their wheels. Start over. That is what I did tonight. Now that I have spent several weeks in the guts of the new system and getting lost, I knew that I was pretty much overwhelmed.
Tonight, I converted another one of my test sites to V5 and decided to load my current skin and just follow the flow. I am amazed at how much smoother it is going for me. Oh sure, I have to recreate the few things I have finally managed to learn and add as plugins, CSS and so forth, but I really was like a dog chasing it's tail, I was spinning and overwhelmed. I was trying to fix things I had screwed up, for one thing. I just didn't understand what I was doing originally, and was getting frustrated to the pulling the hair out stage. Now... I'm going slow and easy, hopefully with a lot less angst. I also didn't understand how to use the active screen of our site on the right (or for some, on the bottom) so I could see changes as I applied them.
I know that a lot of us are A type personalities and once we get into a project, we want it done NOW! It's not going to happen. For a non-coder like me, we just have to ask for help and wait for an answer. Sometimes, the answer doesn't really address the problem, but Hey, it's conversation and let's us know we aren't alone in this adventure.
I really appreciate all the kind support I have received in the past few weeks. I hope to be able to apply the things I have learned with my newly converted site. I know I will be back asking for help, but, thank goodness, I have taken some screenshots and made notes in my Notepad, so I'm not nearly as discombobulated as I was some weeks ago.
Hang in there folks, we can do this.
Tonight, I converted another one of my test sites to V5 and decided to load my current skin and just follow the flow. I am amazed at how much smoother it is going for me. Oh sure, I have to recreate the few things I have finally managed to learn and add as plugins, CSS and so forth, but I really was like a dog chasing it's tail, I was spinning and overwhelmed. I was trying to fix things I had screwed up, for one thing. I just didn't understand what I was doing originally, and was getting frustrated to the pulling the hair out stage. Now... I'm going slow and easy, hopefully with a lot less angst. I also didn't understand how to use the active screen of our site on the right (or for some, on the bottom) so I could see changes as I applied them.
I know that a lot of us are A type personalities and once we get into a project, we want it done NOW! It's not going to happen. For a non-coder like me, we just have to ask for help and wait for an answer. Sometimes, the answer doesn't really address the problem, but Hey, it's conversation and let's us know we aren't alone in this adventure.
I really appreciate all the kind support I have received in the past few weeks. I hope to be able to apply the things I have learned with my newly converted site. I know I will be back asking for help, but, thank goodness, I have taken some screenshots and made notes in my Notepad, so I'm not nearly as discombobulated as I was some weeks ago.
Hang in there folks, we can do this.
I was working my socks off to add everything back in but kept getting an error pop up when re adding the extra smilies.
Just coming up to 3,000 members on my forum, but still feel sad that some one posted saying they had enough & deleted their account due to me not sorting a problem out quickly enough