Totally Meant To Be !
Happy New Year !!
It's just past midnight on 1/13/16 --
1/12/16 has come and gone... the official date of my one month milestone since I joined WA...
I've "net" a lot of people from around the world -- AWEsome !!
I'm ranked in the low 800s -- not great, but definitely not bad... slowly building social network --
I've learned quite a bit from reading posts, comments and training blogs.
However, I have not finished the course/lessons... I'm still stuck on Course 1, Lesson 4 -- creating my website...
on one hand, I've been procrastinating because I feel daunted by computer jargon and can't even grasp the basic gist of geekdom... I feel completely inadequate and incompetent --
on the other hand, 2 things have happened in the past week, which will have a favorable effect on my progress, at a very critical point in my training... (specifically, creating my very first website EV-er):
1) web hosting is now available through WA, making it a one-stop-shop -- I have not bought a domain from another company yet, so this is beneficial for me.
2) one blog posted by gooddogpoky2 (thanks Dan!), alluding to something down the lines of "shoulda-coulda-woulda", received a lot of similar comments from people who felt that they wish they knew then, what they know now because they would have created their websites differently, but that it's too difficult or time consuming to go back and change things... what I got from this is, maybe I should continue the lessons before creating my website, especially since I don't know jack about jargon --
That said, my lameness turned out to be a blessing in disguise -- I look back on the past month, and I realize... it was Totally Meant To Be !!
So here I go... hopefully I can avoid the "Holly Would-a", and be more of a "Holly Did-a"
Have a GREAT Year everybody! Be Safe -- Drive Safer ~
Holly
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A number of members have also said they created a site during the training which they use as a test site, when they felt comfortable enough they created a second site, I feel that's the direction I'm going in, I find it helpful to actually work on the site while I'm learning, cheers, Sylvie :)
Holly,
Just remember you are not alone in the computer jargon issue and not knowing what the heck I am doing. You will learn more and more as you dig deeper into the lessons.
I surely am not the best, and I am so old I can't even remember what I have learned which is why I have to go back and forth as I continue to build my site.
You will do fine and will be getting traffic soon!
Sheila
Being a geek or knowing the jargon, or even understanding what certain words mean is of little importance. These are thing you will learn down the road on this journey. Follow each instruction word for word, match up each word you read with each word you find, in each place the instructions send you, and you'll be fine. The fine print of computer knowledge can be daunting, but don't over think it. As a printer, I often had to print two sided business cards for people who were conducting their business in Japan or China. Everything has to be proof read, but I didn't have to be able to write or speak those languages, I just had to make what appeared to be symbols match the copy I was given. I didn't need to know what it meant, just that it looked the same. That is how I teach some of my friends and family to understand what's going on with computers. Simplify.
Just try to push through it. It is a great learning experience. Even if you modify it greatly later.
Xin
Hello holly and great positive thinking !!!
Now the thing is that you will always be working on your website as it
Is an ongoing adventure to improve /
All this you will learn by getting involved with the group as you are
Best regards. Paul
You are doing GREAT Holly - one day soon you will wake up and say 'wow I really have learned SO much already'. Onwards and upwards!
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Keep up the good work Holly.Wish you every success.