February 2, 2013
Setting
up this blog was as much of an experience as actually writing on it. What did I find challenging? Pretty much the entire process! I read all the suggested items our instructor
linked on our class page so I had a pretty good idea what each part of the blog
was and what to include for the class. I
just had to figure out how to get mine going.
A friend suggested a template and my teenage daughter showed me a “Googled”
list of suggested sites with free templates.
That wasn’t overwhelming AT ALL!
I spent HOURS checking out site after site after site. I finally found one I thought would be great
and hit the download button. When I
tried to open it and actually create the blog, I ran into even more
problems. It was time to admit I needed
help. A dear friend came to my rescue,
showed me that I had chosen a bad template that had a problem in its
‘coding’. I’m sure that my
deer-in-the-headlights look assured her that it was okay to tell me I should
abandon what I’d spent hours finding and go to the blog site and use one of
their templates. Why didn't I remember
that suggestions from a teenage girl are never simple? At this point, we were able to get a simple
and clean template set up and got the blog up. I really have to thank Lety of Real Simple Solutions!
What
did I find most enjoyable? I had the
blog up and fonts chosen and the basics done.
I hadn't written a word of the actual blog but I was enjoying that I had
something that I thought was pretty cool looking up and running. Wait.
Now what? What was I going to
write? Other than my assignments, what was I going to write? I finally wrote the first entry. And then I just sat and looked at it. Was I ready to hit enter and put it out there
for the whole world to see? My friend
said “Just doooooo it”. So I hit
publish. It’s out there now.
Now
to remember to breathe until I see a comment or ten!
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