Learning curve...

I have discovered that I am getting old! I love the idea of being an Adult Webmaster. I understand that it is not an easy process or a cheap one, I understand that you have to continuously keep yourself informed and updated on the newest technologies and business practices, but...

I will be damned if I can keep up with everything and learn everything that I need to be successful, especially when it comes to "coding"!

I purchased LinkX, TGPX and a template for TGPX. After almost two weeks of trying to figure out the coding, I said fuck it!

I have no formal education when it comes to HTML or coding and quite frankly anyone who can do this stuff gets much praise.

I have taught myself HTML, at least enough to build sites that look really good, I taught myself how to use a graphics program (XARA is the bomb!) and can create great graphics, I even taught myself enough to be able to setup, configure and customize CMS sites like Wordpress and Joomla, but now I can't wrap my head around LinkX or TGPX.

I learn visually. I'm an artist so I need to be able to touch and see what I am creating. Numbers and words on a computer screen look like a Rorschach test to me.

I think I will do things the old fashioned way, like The Hun, his site is done manually and quite frankly it's not very attractive, but it's productive.

I have burned my paid copies of LinkX, TGPX, VidiScript and several templates onto a disk. When I become successful I will pay someone to teach me (as they actually do the work) how to code these things.

I know I'm setting myself up for some extra heavy duty work, but I want and need to be successful at this and if that is what it takes...I will.

Just my two cents worth of grumbling. Thank You.

I don't wanna put you off but a site like the hun won't work anymore if you launch it today. It's not 1997 anymore obviously and he needed years back then to become as successful as he was in the early 2000's. And competition was quite rare those days, internet connections slow, surfers uneducated, used to text instead of thumbs and the list goes on....

Don't waste your time on that. Better get into the blogging biz instead of learning TGPX. TGPX is only good if you already have some traffic on text TGP's or if you have some traffic to bait submitters. Starting from scratch with it is possible but there are much better ways.

Get yourself 10-20 keyword rich domains, setup one wordpress installation for all of them, add some plugins and you're ready to start. Once you have success with that and some traffic you can still enter the oldscool text TGP game and learn how to use TGPX. :pimp: