I'm relocating my blog here just for the day. I haven't spent a lot of time with HTML since high school, so I just want to prove to myself that I can still do it. (And obviously we have to do it for class.) Last year I worked as online editor for Virtuous Woman magazine so I can't say I haven't dealt with HTML at all since high school. However, student organizations use a type of software called Joomla, so I only used HTML and CSS when I couldn't figure out what to do on Joomla (which honestly was a lot of the time).

For those of you who have never used HTML, I will say that it's good to know. However, I've found that in real life (as in outside of the classroom) it really only matters as a back-up plan. Learning software like Joomla is becoming more important because software like that is becoming more important - and HTML is only really useful when something goes wrong. In fact, web hosting sites like Tripod have easy tools that allow you to make a Web page without ever leaving the site. The only reason I'm going through the trouble of writing this HTML and using FTP is because I want to know that I can still do it and because Professor Thornburg seems to want us to learn.

If I can remember how to use FTP, this should work properly and we should be online in no time. In that case, I'll link from my blog to here and you'll be reading this right now. If that doesn't work ... Well, I suppose I'll have to blog about where I went wrong. So let's just hope this goes through.

By the way, I know most of this was random gibberish, but I didn't want to put a lot of effort into something not knowing whether it would work. So I'm sorry if I just wasted a few minutes of your life.

One last thought ... I used Filezilla for my FTP. You'll find that most others, like CuteFTP, want you to pay after a free trial. Thus I recommend Filezilla.