Driving Me Crazy

I became a paid-member to make use of the ‘advanced’ features of LiveJournal and I am pulling my hair out after about four hours of search. I guess the core problem is with my expectations. I thought there will be step by step solutions - since I come from Blogger community.

I won’t bite the dust. I am still fighting.

Damn! It has been a long time since I beat my head like this against a problem.

This is what I actually need: I have done the basic customizations. I need another box in the sidebar. Also I need a navigation bar at the top of the journal. I could have done this by simply adding a DIV to my Blogger template. Livejournal guys beat me up when I was totally unaware of the complexity and unprepared for the you-are-own-your-own help. None of the “howto”s I read had any how-to. They simply spoke in arcane tongues. I am extremely frustrated right now.

But this is good. This only strengthens my resolve to go on. My initial false expectations to quickly write couple of lines of code and get instant gratification has been struck down, spit on and beaten with a base ball bat. Since the LiveJournal guys killed my initial expectations with such a sadistic smile, I am going to sleep over it and then approach the problem afresh.