CSS (creativity sucking swine)

I'm not that bitter about CSS, I just thought my HTML abbreviation thing was so cool and assumed it would be possible to make another one. But it didn't work.

Coding is frustrating, but I guess oddly rewarding. The thing I find interesting, though, is that we're being creative by using a code, a logic, a set language... it's creating something out of logic. I guess that's not normal for me, and I'm sure Jackson Pollock would be ashamed. I've tried to throw code on a blank TextWrangler thingy with miscellaneous passion and try to reveal my artistic subconscious, just like Pollock, only to come out with a webpage so excessively hideous and wonky that the only thing logical at that point would be to throw the stupid oversized Mac computer screen at the stupid frigging wall.

I guess what I'm trying to say that it's challenging. But isn't it like any other work of art?

This is what I'm thinking. A painting, right? You're mixing colours and trying different paintbrushes but it just won't come out right. So you paint over the top. You mix more colours. You snap your paintbrush in half and shove it down some poor soul's throat but just apologise by saying "I'm an artist, I'm allowed to be violent". In the end you come up with a visual creation, an amalgamation of colours and lines and thought processes that gets put in a wanky art gallery and people get their own meaning.

A webpage might not be conceptual, and instead a little more factual and logical, but if you're trying to make it pretty with CSS you're imporing the aesthetics and making it something that a visitor could appreciate more. At least I am. So in the same way you're mixing paint, trying different colours, and snapping that godawful $30 horsehair paintbrush into tiny little pieces like it deserves, with CSS you are going back and forth, deleting code, looking up a new one and trying it out, and in the end trying to create something distinct, charismatic or easy to understand - it all depends on your website's purpose. The same as an artist is trying to create something specific too.

I don't know, maybe it's some pointless thought from the recesses of an overactive and confusing but not at all original mind, but I find CSS interesting as a result. It's a stylesheet, it is trying to add style to your bland webpage... make it more visually pleasing. (Or maybe visually annoying, depending on how postmodern you are.) So it's sort of a kind of visual art. The weird thing about it, though, is we're using a completely logical (or supposed to be logical, depending on how CSS-savvy you are) code to create it. A lot of art isn't logical. It just comes from somewhere, like the deep crevices of the subconscious for abstract expressionists.

Or maybe CSS isn't an art and art is logical anyway so I should shut up. Either way, CSS is endlessly frustrating but I'm determined to beat it down with my big oversized wooden spoon. Suck it up. My web proposal at this stage looks somewhat average, but just you wait.