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The new look of TourTot has been a long time coming. I’ve spent a significant amount of time in space while staring blankly at the coding of different wordpress.org themes. Being born in 1984 has left me with a natural disadvantage when it comes to web stuff. I look around at the people I graduated high school and college with and a lot of them are awesome at it, but not in the same way as younger kids.
People my age had to work a little harder to master technology compared to everyone even just one year younger. These “kids” seem to be born knowing exactly how to do all of the stuff that I don’t even know how to put into words. I don’t feel like it was a gradual change where every year kids were taught a little more in school, but maybe that’s just me. And it probably depends on how quickly different school systems adopted classes and hired teachers who had actually seen the internet. My family got a computer when I was in third grade, but I was thirteen years old when I first laid eyes on a website. My first visit to AOL felt like a trip to a foreign country.
Of course I’m better with all of it now, but it’s not built into me the way it will be built into Artie. Even though I rely on technology to the point that I once pulled up my phone’s GPS to look up the location of the spice aisle in an unfamiliar grocery store in Utah, there are still times when I find myself flipping through a physical phone book to find a number and writing everything other than this blog with a pen and paper.
This new site is nothing super fancy, but I have to say I’m proud of myself for learning how to do it. Admitting that changing the color of text, uploading a header and making a logo was pretty much brand new to me kind of feels like telling you an embarrassing, dirty secret, but it’s all behind me now. I could’ve had someone do it for me, but I wanted to learn. It felt really good to teach myself something new.
Now that I’m no longer completely lost when it comes to the interweb, I’m diving in a little further. I have a new blog in the works, which I’m very excited about. I’ve also started to do some freelance writing. I’ll keep you updated on those happenings. It feels good to grow!
P.s. What do you think of my interweb skills? Comments, criticism, do you youngsters want to teach me something? (I’d love to have more interaction in this new phase of the blog!) Just make sure to comment on the new site rather than the old one, since this post is up on both.
Haha, I love that you said interweb. I thought I was the only one!