Shoot To Kill

Mostly this post is for format testing purposes but i might as well include some actual information.

I cleared up a couple old yet personal posts in order to make way for design related ones. I'm hoping to use this space for more productive, design related and archival means; but converting style sheets at a coding level in order to get an actually nice and unique result without much HTML experience is awkward to say the least. I've often thought of trying to build from scratch but blogger and wordpress force templates down your throat so i guess until i fork out the money to afford a domain this is what i have to compromise with. I've been trying to make this place look nice for the life of me, but getting a header to align to coordinates or page boarders, as opposed to the "post wall", is like trying to knock a moose out with a nerf baseball bat. Likely impossible.

I've read a billion tutorials (well, ok. Like 20) on HTML and whilst i understand the basics nothing actually teaches you how to construct a working page with it. You can find all the base commands but none of the variables to create something other than the exact thing the tutorial you read demonstrates.

Frustration a-side i'm real tired so that probably doesn't help my problem solving capacity, i'm too used to working with aesthetics and theory than practical media like code; that and the software i have been using i've been acquainted with for the better part of a decade. It's no real surprise that even after leaving compulsary, further and/or higher education that one is still required to learn new skills and/or hone existing ones, but sometimes you forget how much of a chor it is on top of lifes other priorities when those skills aren't in so much of a demand that you can consistently put food on the table with them.

I was always taught that being a "jack of all trades" makes you more employable and in many respects that can be true; but when you come out of university with a degree in an ambiguous subject like Graphic Design it can be difficult proving your worth when it covers so many things specialised in by "one class wonders". Why hire a Graphic Designer to animate when you can get an animator, why hire a Graphic Designer to build a website when you can get a Web Designer, why hire a Graphic Designer to draw for you when you can hire an Illustrator?