Hello dear crawlers of the interwebs!
It's about time I gave you something long and boring to read, so here it is.

For the last week or so, I've been up 'til around 2am day. Why?
Because I'm a nutcase.
No, really.
Who else would deprive themselves of that much sleep, to do work they weren't even being paid to do? (if you answer "me!" to that question (Marianne), then you can join my small and exlusive club)
Last Sunday I had nothing to do. I was sitting there at the breakfast bar, dead bored. The previous night, I'd been skating around the interwebs looking for free hosting and domain names - more out of curiousity than anything. Upon mentioning this to a friend, albeit, a friend with lots of webspace, he offered me hosting if I ever needed it. I then found a free domain name.
Anyway, back to Monday morning. Munching away at my bowl of Wheetos I suddenly though "I know... I could make that website for work that everyone suggested, but no-one did!". And so, the saga begins.

Day 1

I hastily dash to my laptop, grab my phone, a cup of coffee and some food, before settling at my desk. Ready. Vista takes an age to load, as if teasing me. I log on to msn and, to my releif, my friend is online. The conversation goes something like this:

Me: Hello Josh =]
Josh: Oh, hi!
Me: Remember you were offering me webspace ...
Josh: Yeah sure =]
Me: Iloveyou.

So, I dive into dreamweaver, before realising "hang on ... I need a background image first"
So, I dive into paint, before realising "Hang on ... I'm in paint. Bad!"
So, I dive into a better photo editor and start beavering away at a banner type background image. Back into dreamweaver, and I discover the cool flash buttons. In they go. I upload the logo, pester my friend for the details for his FTP server, and I'm away - the first page is up! (time not to scale)
By now, it's lunchtime. I eat.
I repeat the same process another 5 times throughout the day, constantly updating the other pages as well, as I make them look better.
Bed - 2:18am

Day 2

I'm straight onto my laptop. Josh offers a bit of help, becuase I don't know how to use css stylesheets. Josh sorts the css out for me. Wow. It all looks so much better!
Today, I continue editing pages to make them look good, and upload another page.
Bed - 1:08am

Day 3

Monday morning sees me waking up at about 1pm. I eat lunch, and get to work. (note, I am still wearing my PJs)
Today I realise that I've only been testing the website on my laptop, in firefox. So, today, I hastily open up IE7 on my laptop and log on to the main PC. To my horror, IE7 and big screens appear to mess things up. So, today is full of making thigs compatible with different screens and browsers. I email my team lead, saying something along the lines of
"Hey, Lynds! I'm making a website for us! It works, kind of. See you tomorrow".
To which, she phoned me back ... and asked for someones phone number.
Bed - 10:45

Day 4

Shopping with family for most of today. I get home at 3:45, grab my laptop and head straight back out again. To the town hall for our monthly team meeting.
I show everyone the website, they love it! (I am muchos pleased!) Ideas arise about getting a blog put in, and getting a proper domain name.
I go home, and perfect it a bit more.
Bed - 12:39

Day 5

Today, I'm off paintballing with a few friends. We loose. Dismally. But it was fun.
Get home at about 5:45 ish. Eat.
On computer, get hold of Josh and pester him about a blog. He complies. Quickly set up the blog, run by wordpress, and make some sneaky edits to the default coding for it, so that it looks more like part of the main site. Upload new copies of everything, with the link to the blog. A bit more tweaking.
Bed - 2:13

Day 6

I wake up, an hour before I'm meant to be at the other end of the borough for work.
I rush out of the house, before realising that the rough school down the road aren't on half term. So I take a detour, to avoid the hoards of kids going to school, to the bus stop.
Spend 49 minutes on a bus crawling through the borough (frankly, I could be walking faster).
Best friend texts me, she's away in West Sussex with my girlfriend. Spend the journey texting her. Get to work, dash down the corridor, emerge into a big conference room. They're running late. I'm fine. I train some foster carers, eat, train some more foster carers, then get in a cab with some collegues and go back to the office, where I bump into my sister who is being trained to do something. Get paid, and get on the considerably faster bus home.
On to the computer. Decide to fiddle around with Google apps to give everyone "name@domain.co.nr" email addresses. Realise I can't do this with free domains. Sit there looking dejected. Discuss with Josh. Out of blue, he goes, "I'll buy a proper domain name now and you can use that!".
Me: "O.o You'd do that!?"
Josh "Yeah, sure"
Me: "How much do I owe you?"
Josh "£5:18"
Me: "Make it £40"
Josh: "Whaa?"
Me: "That's for hosting, domain, and an unprecidented amount of help"
Josh: "You really don't need to"
Me: "Yes, yes I do."
Josh: "Mmmkay then. lovoo"

Set up proper email addresses for everyone, note down passwords, then use the same passwords to create individual accounts on the blog (so everyone can update it). Compile all information into a spreadsheet, attach to an email, and send to all my YA collegues. At 3:12am.
Bed - 3:23am

Day 6

Today, I get woken up by screaming kids. I yawn and drag myself out of my bed. Miss breakfast.
Make some last fixes, and make sure everything works, in all the browsers, on all the screens.

IT DOES.
Finished. 4pm.

and now .... I give you ...

www.wfyoungadvisors.org.uk

If you're still reading, congratz.

Bai.

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