Quote Originally Posted by smilingcat View Post
used dreamweaver when it was Macromedia and not Adobe. Back then it was HTML code and WYSIWYG coding.

Now I just finished loading XAMPP-drupal-MySQL-PhP stack on my regular win7 PC so it can act as a server while I develop and "deploy" my site.

google blog doesn't have the functionality I'm looking for. Nor does Wordpress. I guess I could have gone with Joomla but maybe I'm masochist for choosing something that has much steeper learning curve.

I'm just too cheap to hire someone for $$$ to develop my farm web site. We'll see how far I get before I start throwing away intended/want list of functionality within my site. I'm just burnt out from writing codes and it wasn't even my primary job function when I worked as a design engineer.

Why do I want to bash my head into the wall?

Are there any Drupal geekets here whose brain I can pick if I just don't get it or if I get stuck?

I know this feeling and I convey my sympathies. Website overhauls are never fun. You said that Wordpress or Blogpress don't have the functionality that you want, but you didn't specify what functionality it is that you are looking for.

I have a Wordpress and Blogger account actually, but I know that the design as a blog instead of a website is limited, so if some of the functional elements you mean have to do with this, I totally understand your concerns. My Wordpress account is being used as an online portfolio for my work, while my blogger account is still being used as a blog, but I knew that for my professional website, I needed something a little more too. And of course, like you, I really didn't want to pay a lot of money to hire a web designer. I looked around and found some good options with this company. I liked that I could build my website to my desired specifications, without having to really do much coding. Coding is time consuming and frustrating at times. If it was easy, we would all just create our own websites without Wordpress or Blogger or the other options out there. So, if you are getting really frustrated, then maybe check them out, or something similar. Again, it all depends on what functions you are really lookign for.

Hope this helped.