Making money at Griffith Publishing

Money isn’t that important to me, but it sure matters when taxes or insurance payments or something helps piles up and blocks all exits.

The projects most likely to be financially successful:

• Ghostwriting
• Physician Publishing
• Web design

For the above areas, I need all-new web page designs and sharper skills in web design.

Some templates look so cool. I’d be willing to buy a template if I could massacre it with changes I’d like to make. I don’t want to buy a template that looks like a template.

Dreamweaver, I’m ready. Everything I need to do in the future depends on my ability to merge my marketing needs with Dreamweaver’s capabilities.

What do you expect from January?

One of my clients tells me it’s minus 28 where he is, and how am I doing?

Just fine. I’m in Idaho, and it’s about 60 degrees warmer here than at my client’s Minnesota office.

All of my primary web pages have been re-designed, and most of the glitches have been taken care of.

Principal project now is the “Mask” book. I think I have enough material and about 32,000 out of 50,000 words are written.

I do not like anything about the new “improved” WordPress. I’m sure the changes were made with good intentions, but what a pain to learn new routines when I’d just caught on to the old ones. Takes times, causes errors, and generally creates a dysfunctional relationship between WordPress and myself.
So here’s my business list of stuff to do…

• Pay bills
• Work on chapters for “The Mask”
• Plan next HealthWorks
• Suggestions to Mandy re submitted manuscripts

Guess that’s it. I am so intrigued by the quiet life. It’s hard to wind myself up to get things done.

Struggling, still, with web design

For people like me who use web pages to deliver specific messages to people who matter to our business, learning the ropes for Dreamweaver can be daunting.

An IT wizard or a person who intuitively sees cause-and-effect and translates jargon into usable English has a fast ride.

For hobos like me with a laptop in my backpack, it’s just plain complicated to figure out what goes with what. Right now I have the impossible situation of opening a train wreck when I want to work with a Dreamweaver file.

There is absolutely no resemblance between what is on the screen with the program open and (1) what I want or (2) what is on the Web. Yes, I know about templates, about page design, about overrides, and even about CSS. But none of those tools makes any difference when I try to choose another font or go to bold face etc.

So I issue the commands, blow the page onto the web, and then, and only then, see the results of my labors.

WYSIWYG? Not at all. WYSInotWYG, ever.