The site meter is ticking and I even got it to the bottom (dragging is just too simple for me to figure out on the first go). I couldn't get the HRML code to work before the (whoops: I can't put it here! Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not allowed) position, so I had to use the dummy's way out. Still, a modest victory.

Week 1 was a whirlwind of new challenges and most days I felt like a dinosaur - and a foolish one at that. I met all of the weekly benchmarks except one: I still don't understand the difference between a blog and a website - or rather, I think I do, but the difference seems to lie in how they are most commonly used rather than in their intrinsic form. For instance, I update my website weekly, adding announcements, links, and material for students. Many websites are more rigid: once the content is there, it stays there. Blogs, being generally easier to add to (at least for me, since I can only update my Dreamweaver site at work), tend to be more fluid, more dynamic, and mutable. Another blog property is the automatic addition of a date to a blog post, which creates the typical chronological structure. In summary, I think a blog is a website sub-category.

Particularly liberating was the yahoo chat session during week 1. I won't even admit how infrequently I've chatted online, so the thrills of getting into the group, exchanging questions and comments with the moderator and the B4B partipants, and - o rapture - adding a moving emoticon were highlights of my week. Considering my week, that's no mean statement!

Tomorrow's challenge: add some "daily fun stuff" to the blog template. I've started with a prosaic one: a dictionary and thesaurus. Any more suggestions for add-ons?