Kelly Gibbons, artist and writer, about me

Saturday, January 03, 2004

Yesterday I decided to learn more about how to build this blog. I want to put comments on it, and I will eventually, but the first time I tried I deleted my entire blog. . I will not try again until I am completely sure I have it right. (I am happy to say that persistence pays off and I learned how to put comments on my blog--I added that to this post)

I did learn how to add new headings to my sidebar, so below my archives I now have links to more blogs. These are places I try to visit everyday. They are a talented group of women who always have something inspiring to say. I enjoy my daily visits to their sites and hope others will too. As I find other great blogs, I will add them to the list.

Everything I have done on this site and my homepage is through trial and error and experimentation. I am learning something new all the time. I have not spent one dime doing it either. A big plus in my book!

Here's how: (Just in case someone is reading and interested)

1. Printmaster Platinum 8.0--a desktop publishing software program that has a web publishing tool on it. I have used this program for years for other things, and realized I could use it to create a web page.
2. Free Web Space at adelphia.com (comes free with the internet service so I might as well use it)
3. FTP WS_FTP LE to upload my info to my site. It is a free download (for personal use) from Ipswitch.com. I haven't figured it out totally, but have learned enough to get my site up. There is a way to upload directly to your site, but I haven't figured that out yet, so for now I just link to my blog from my homepage.
4. Blogger.com--also free and much easier than trying to manage a journal on my own. When I just had it on my site through the printmaster program I started having publishing problems. I think it was too much to constantly load. Since going with blogger I haven't had problems.
5. There are many places on the web to go for help. These are sites I've found useful:
http://www.htmlprimer.com, www.howstuffworks.com/web-page.htm I plan on learning the basics. I don't thing I'll learn how to program or write html, but I do want to know enough to have a decent site, and not crash it when I try to add something.
Another thing I found very useful was to right click on "View Source" when visiting other sites. Seeing how a site is written can be very helpful--I learned how to make my links a new page instead of a link away from my page by doing this.
6. For adding comments I used HaloScan.com (I tried with several others and had no luck-this one was very easy to use!)

posted by Kelly @ 1/03/2004 10:53:00 AM

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