As a creative and curious person, I'm always trying to figure out how things work. That's why I design knitwear, why love learning about quantum mechanics, and why I spend so much time watching video tutorials on the internet.

How websites work has always been a bit if a mystery to me. I have to admit, the Internet seems like a magical place. I don't actually believe there's a genie in my laptop named Safari, but the web still delights and impresses me on a daily basis.

I'm very fortunate that Brian, my web-developer husband, has always taken care of my website needs. But lately, I've been curious to find out for myself what makes my website GO. As a first step I'm learning a bit about front-end web development, starting with HTML code and CSS design.

It's been interesting, and not surprisingly, the more I learn the more I feel like I'm using my knitting pattern design muscles. I'm organizing information, using special abbreviations, and formatting elements in a way that reminds me of writing a knitting pattern.

I became curious about this stuff because I'm currently in the process of designing a shiny new website for Knit Darling. The process has gone something like this for me:
*design a few things, consult with Brian, find out that I'm crazy, go back to the drawing board, repeat from * until (what seems like) forever. Needless to say, I think more like a painter than a programmer! 

I'm under no illusion that I will soon have the skills to code any of my new website design for real, but I'm starting to understand how it all works together. So maybe I'll have a few less of those "repeats" in my future!