I’m celebrating today. My website with this blog is finally alive and well.
Just like this picture, this Colorado girl is so excited, I feel I could jump over the mountains outside my window.
So, this was my website journey.
I’ve planned to have this website live and the blog active for a long time. A few months ago, I gave up trying to figure it out with someone else and determined I would do it myself and started studying videos on YouTube.com to do it myself. Not being technically savvy, I finally settled on a video sponsored by WebYoda.com to help me set up my WordPress.org website. It took over three weeks to go through the two-and-a-half-hour video. I finally got the website set up and almost ready to go live. Thinking I would be done in a few days, I announced it would be up in a few days, only to suffer the embarrassment of having to announce I had to delay going live.
There were two parts with which I wasn’t happy. They were the contact page and the blog page. Unhappily, I had to delay going live with my website because I couldn’t get those to work the way I wanted. Along with that, I felt frustrated and attacked by my lack of technical skills. After a couple hours of crying and fighting the desire to throw my computer through the window, I decided to fight.
Taking the basics I learned on the video and doing some research, I found WordPress plugins for both pages, got them installed, and here I am, with my website and blog alive, active, and functioning. I’m still working on some of the details and tweaking the site, but it can be and is being used.
The picture with this blog shows the elation I feel at accomplishing this. I’m part of the generation many say are not able to be competent beyond simple use of a computer. In fact, one of my young Bible students told me her dad is “really, really, really old because he is 53.” She made me feel ancient since I’m sixteen years her father’s senior.
I know my tech knowledge is limited. I did this, and I did it with very little help outside what I could find online. It took a lot of prayer, research, and hard work. It included frustration and tears. However, in the end, this website is up. My thanks to the makers of the tutorials I used and the writers who created the research. It is done. It will continue to improve. I have succeeded in fulfilling this dream. I encourage everyone reading this to pursue and fulfill your dreams. If I can be of help with your dreams, please contact me.
All that to say “Welcome to my website!” I look forward to sharing things that excite me on Fridays. I look forward to sharing writing, editing, and publishing information and opinions on Tuesdays. I will be back with more on Tuesday.