Final Stages....phew

This is going to be a really quick blog because I am physically exhausted and in need of a coffee....and a lie down.
I have been redesigning my web based portfolio site for near on to an eternity now. Obviously I've had lots of other things to do outside of using Dreamweaver and getting frustrated. It's been great fun uf that's the right word to use as I've been unable to stop once I've gotten going and even delved into the art of pop up windows. I tried and tried and tried...but alas I need a little more time spent on scripting. The basic principle I certainly understand and am becoming quite partial to the odd few line of java script dissection. But I found it pretty mind blowing simply trying to add a pop up link window script that I intended and tried to hide behind an image placeholder.
It's easy enough to get the basic script to work from simply adding it to the code page, but my problem that I admit I took far too long trying to solve, was adding the JavaScript to the actual pop up window itself. I checked it so many times I felt like I was going cross eyed. The online tutorials I read were straight forward enough, and I am sure I have the brains for it, but I will just have to put it down to experience and lack of information.
From the ground up I have rebuilt my site over the past few days.
I'd been asking as many people I could think of to sum up there views of it's appearance and over all layout. Taking into account the fact that I'm still just a beginner, I tend to still get a little over enthusiastic at the best of times. And so I managed to make a great deal of notes from what people have said.
I have a bedroom floor full of cold coffee cups, biscuit crumbs and rough sketches of how I wanted the site to look like.
I think I have managed well considering that many ideas I wanted so much to incorporate into the second version, I couldn't manage due to a lack of knowledge. Don't get me wrong as I am forever scouring the internet when I need that extra piece of information to work out a solution. And I'm no stranger to both asking for help or popping down to the library. But I've more or less found workarounds for most of what I wanted to do.

Saying that though, there is one problem that has bugged me for so long now. And that's the webcam page. At present I am using some free downloaded software that I managed to find relatively quickly when I first realized the other week that once one purchases a webcam there are other points to consider before it can be incorporated into your site and be linked up as a live feed.
I took the basic individual camera feed web's that is allocated to every user of the software, and decided after hearing from a reliable source that there is a way to edit out the unwanted bits such as any adverts, code, colouring or information. I managed to screw it completely up many many times during the time I've spent on it. I even got it to look just like part of my site. This was a feet in itself as I'd forgotten parts of the basic code needed and had to ring up a chum to get some advice. I did get the colours to match my site theme too. But try as I might every time I uploaded the new page having copied the code and stored it on the college server, something kept going wrong. It seems that everything I exited the software, Dreamweaver would tell me that the actual page I was working on (camera page provided by the freeware software company) would re-edit itself as if by magic and play havoc with my links. I tried so many times to correct this problem but alas in the end I was resigned to editing the actual off site page and linking to it from a "ahref" link.

And incase anyone wants to throw the obvious line of advice at me regarding making sure the ahref or other links are pointing to the correct source code, directory or file......DON'T

It works fine as it is, and at this precise moment in time I am going to leave it alone as one must I guess draw the line at the best of times when something doesn't want to work.
Perhaps I will find out how to create either a workaround or use the new software I have bought that automatically uploads to any specified server address. I have tried it already using an active x plugin and then a java plugin, but from what I can gather because of security issues with running live scripts, I have come to the decision that the college server won't allow it. Besides which I have since had this conclusion verified by one of the college tutors.

Oh well. I'm off now as I need a break.