"Top Five Tips For New Bloggers......Mmmm Let Me See"
Okay let me start here. Its Saturday afternoon, no-one home and I decide to get my act together and enter the world of blogging for the first time. I am no where near a newbie to the www or computers for that matter, but boy oh boy wasn't I made to feel like one lol.
After surfing around the net I finally came across a site (blogger.com) which seemed simple enough, so i thought, to get myself my very own blog page. Signing up seemed very easy, picking a template again yep very easy but then I decided hmmmmm lets change the way in which the page looks. Well instead of just simply doing changes that were available through the website itself, I decided nope lets go for a surf and search for free downloadable templates. Geezzzzz what was I thinking lol. After googling several different web pages for FREE downloads and I shout the word Free because they only seem to be free to look at but not to use, I finally came across a design I liked. Again this seemed fairly simple just follow the instructions. Well this is where the fun began!
The instructions said to copy and paste the text into the text box . Yes okay I got that but which text box? The one on the download site or the one on my blog site. After trying several different ways I gathered they meant to paste it into the HTML section on my blog site.
OK I'll try that seems to make sense. Yeah right wrong again! This time I was greeted with a whole lot of errors and boxes that needed closing before it could accept the HTML code. By this stage I was starting to lose my cool and it didn't help that one sticky little fly decided to enter the house and use my ears as a resting post. So by this time I am still without a decent looking blog page and getting angrier by the minute. I decided to do one more web search for easy and free blog templates. Woohooo I finally hit the jackpot. A page that finally had reasonable instructions for implementing a blog template. After struggling a tad more I finally had a template that I liked. Now it was time to start my blog, the easiest part of all when starting a blog page.
Because of my experience, or I should say inexperience, with the world of blogging I can only suggest to any one deciding to do this type of communication 5 helpful tips:
- Patience
- Patience
- Patience
- Patience
- And if the above 4 tips do not work, find a teenager to set it up for you, as I'm pretty sure they will have it sorted in a matter of minutes.
On a more serious note though the best advice I can offer someone thinking of making a blog page is to search the Internet, look at whats available and what is easiest for them to manage and don't be afraid to try something new. Now that I have the blog page design finished, I am very confident in the fact that I would and will use this form of Internet communication again, although next time I'll borrow someones kids to have on hand just incase lol.
1 comments:
I think your struggles to find a suitable look for your blog for very worthwhile. It looks different from most others, and it's an eye-pleasing design.
Incidentally, not all teenagers are computer wizards. The usual way mine solve a problem is to whine "Dad, there's something wrong with my computer."
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