So, a few months ago I had a Great Idea – start a blog! I wanted to have a place to share my thoughts, musings, opinions, and experiences. But I wanted it to have a different URL/online address from my art website. Simple, right? Ha!
I contacted my service provider for my domain, thinking I could just get a separate domain for my blog, and Bob would be my uncle. Well, not so much.
After three months of trying to do this using my (not) extensive website building knowledge, I forged ahead with WordPress, which seemed to have rave reviews and was suggested as an easy blog builder.
Well, suffice it to say that I am now intimately familiar with scores of helpful tech people worldwide, and have nothing but good reviews for them, except: I learned, once again, that for anything you wish to do (in so many avenues of life in general) there are at least four ways to do that thing. Each helpful person offered their version of the Best Way to Do That, and included further suggestions for the project, none of which remotely resembled what the previous (or next) person believed to be the best choice of options. Opinions abound, and with my now, clearly, limited grasp of the task at hand, I found myself hopelessly confused by all the jargon (which turns out to be somewhat interchangeable) and the steps involved.
After arduously trying to determine if I was speaking with a representative of my domain host or website builder – which is a very fine line, I’ll tell you – I finally forked over the very affordable minimum monthly dues which provided a direct PHONE LINE (remember those?) to a real, live, very clever human, who also offered solutions sprinkled with opinions, but nonetheless helped me to organize my endless questions into a much clearer order. Thank God for Post-it©Notes!
I now feel confident to report that I have completed this ad hoc course of my own design, although I fear that I am in no position to attempt to teach it.