From Driver to Mechanic: the Path to Expertise

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Can you drive a car? I can. I know how to put the key in the ignition, turn it, and then listen to the motor start. Then I can put the car in gear and step on the gas. I can even drive a manual transmission! But it's not necessary to understand engine mechanics or automobile design principles to drive a car.

Up to now, I've approached my website in the same way, but now I need to take it to the next level. I need to become a "website mechanic". I'm trying to make the Polylang plugin work on my test site and I had to review Level 1 training because I forgot how to do menus. Thank goodness Kyle is updating the lessons!

The point of this post is to encourage you to review the training periodically so that you'll remember how to do all the stuff you did when you first set up your website.

The second time around, I think you'll discover things you missed. You might understand things better, and ask questions that didn't occur to you the first time. Human beings learn in spiral-shaped increments, doing the same things over and over again but in more detail each time so that we discover new facets of information.

By the way, if you are thinking of doing something drastic to your website, like changing your theme or adding some sort of customized feature, use a duplicate Siterubix website to experiment with. When I changed my theme, I copied my website myself, but this time I asked Site Support to help me. Don't experiment on your main site!

So right now, I've got the free Polylang plugin installed on my test site, which runs a free theme that should be compatible with it (I wrote to the developer to ask if it was and they graciously answered me). Today, I figured out where the menus are by trial and error, and I learned that menus are theme-dependent.

Who knows what will happen next!

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Sounds like you are well on your way to being a website engineer Marsha.

That would be great, but it'll be a while. I'm happy that I have the opportunity to experiment and learn. I know what I want to do, and it's just a matter of time before I figure out how.
Thanks for reading, Hugh.

You are welcome Marsha. Continuing to look on as you progress forward.

Yes, Marsha, you are so right, I've had to go back to visit some of the videos that I have seen. and the second time it seems you understand it better or it sticks in your mind more, just wanted to acknowledge that, it's all good.

Hi Dorothy.
I find something new each time I reread a training post. I've been working on this problem for over a week now and today I figured it out.
Thanks for taking the time to read and comment.

Awesome blog, Marsha
We do learn a lot when we review the lessons
Things that we hurriedly or without experience went through the first time, we will be take notice the second time around

I love the fact that you do all your experiments in a siterubix site, I do too as well.
If we continue to do a bit each day, we will become experts within our field

Hi Simone,
Like most people, I scan when I read so I don't remember everything but my main problem was that I did level 1 three years ago! It's fascinating stuff!

Absolutely :)

8~))

Totally agree with you about redoing the lessons. I often go back to refresh on a topic. Great advice.

Thanks for reading, Yvonne.

Your welcome Marsha I loved the analogy. It made good sense.

Thank you for paving the way through the jungle. I am still in the "default" zone. I still get anxious about changing anything. I intend to take your awesome advice and revisit the site training!
Thank you!
Stephen

Hi Stephen,
It's so nice to have all the information at your fingertips. You'll do fine.
Thanks for stopping by!

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