The first month - what I have learnt

bynicdigby

203 followers

10 years ago

So I started my journey with WA a month ago. And boy have I come a long way since then!

I literally knew nothing about how to set up a website a month ago. I had never heard of SEO, keywords, or hyperlinks and did not know how to buy a domain, let alone how to form a whole website.

To start with, I raced through all the training. I created a website. I struggled with getting it laid out how I wanted, and there were howls of frustration as I struggled to understand the difference between posts, pages and categories.

There were some marvellous people on here who stepped up to help me, a complete newbie, and I will be eternally grateful.

After two weeks I realised that my domain name wasn't right for the sllightly different direction I wanted to take. So I stepped back, bought a new domain name, and started again. I took my time, finding a theme I really liked and understood. This proved to be key as the theme I now have is intuitive for me and it looks like I want it too as well.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the writing - this was always going to be a strong point for me. But my technical knowledge has come on to the extent that I managed to create a stand-alone website with 30 pages on it - in one day. That was also a good test of what I had learnt and allowed me to really come to understand some of those posts/pages/categories issues.

I've just had an enforced week off, thanks to ill-health, but have today published an article and a review. For the first time, the publication of them went quite smoothly with regards to uploading and placing pictures and doing all the links.

I now have a website that someone said "wow! you did that in a month?!" about today.

Here's to the next month. Onwards and upwards!

www.cancersavvy.com