I tell my kids I made my first website, zenmonkey.com, in 1997. I had to upload the pages using HTML (hyper text markup language) and upload these and the images via a program with File Transfer Protocol (FTP) over the phone line using a dial up connection. They roll their eyes and exclaim, “Yeah, yeah dad. Like you had to walk to school up hill in three feet of snow too.”
Years later, in 2014, I discovered WordPress. I have since created nearly a dozen websites. I struggled through the learning curve and gave up soon afterward. Making a good website is about three things, in my opinion.
- 1. Be consistent.
- 2. Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good.
- 3. Have fun, even when the going gets tough.
I will explain my struggles in a future post. The challenges I have faced my whole life are on full display as a blogger. For now, I have to get to work. This is the first post for my new website, and I have a lot of work to do. Websites are still a tedious process wrought with learning curves, twists and turns.
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