Long and Time Consuming

I have found the experience of designing my own web page to be long and time consuming and it still looks like a seven year old did it!  I have certainly found out some things about my proficiency or lack there of with computers.  HTML might as well be in Mandarin Chinese because it is like learning a new language.  You can tell the students in this class that have experience in this type of system. I am definitely not one of those students. I am learning many things obviously that I did not know previously but there is so much to absorb that my mind is scrambled. I try to remember what to do and I follow along the best I can with the video examples and written directions but I always seem to miss a step or < or }.  I have needed and received one on one instruction with Jose and that has helped a lot. (Thanks Jose) My goal is to make my web page look as good or maybe just half as good as some that I have seen.  Looking at other students web pages has been fun but it has also been demoralizing in some ways because I feel inferior when it comes to this stuff. I know everyone has their strengths and weaknesses and my weaknesses have definitely been exposed. Sometimes I feel  like if I had more time to attempt some of the tricks so to speak of designing an attractive web page I think I could potentially be able to do it.  Maybe the timing wasn't the greatest for me to take this class. I am finding this out the hard way...