My blog, reloaded

I JUST finished reformatting my blog. It is now based on Jason Sutter's Jellyfish template; previously, it was Douglas Bowman's Minima Black. Both are options available from Blogger. I like this one better by a mile.

In the makeover process, I had to learn working with HTML tags. Now, I have practically zero experience with HTML (as I had with computing, being a largely self-taught but intrepid navigator of the PC realm), save for a uninteresting half-day session I attended somewhere. But the website called W3Schools helped me overcome and come up, through trial-and-error, with a new look that is more pleasant and positive. Blogger's Preview button was a tremendously indispensable ally, able to right whatever went wrong.

The more understated but functional sidebar, especially, now looks closer to what I envisioned it to be when I started blogging almost a year ago, only to be stymied by the formidable HTML code underpinning the template. If formatting were only toolbar driven like Microsoft Word, I would have quickly found a way. Or even keyboard driven, like the good old Wordstar before the advent of Windows 3.1.

Because of their innate curiousity, I'm sure any adventurous gradeschooler in Naga—given the proper guidance and encouragement by competent teachers, more hands-on time in their CLICK computer labs by their school heads, and a more responsive curriculum that would match what the School Board has already invested in IT education—will be able to do more than a 38-year old guy with graying hair.

I hope to see that in my lifetime: confident Nagueño gradeschoolers who blog to their hearts' content, at par with any other anywhere in the world.