Jumping into the pool: world of the web. More like the big scary ocean. I am afraid of drowning, getting hypothermia and being stung by jellyfish, not necessarily in that order.
Heh. Ok, so I have two domain names, which I purchased last summer with the idea of creating a website. Easier said than done, when you have as much knowledge of this as I have. Which is none. I might as well be stepping into a front-end loader and trying to dig a hole. Actually, I’d probably be able to figure that out.
Why is this so scary? It just means learning it. Same as I didn’t know how to use Excel a long time ago, and now it’s a piece of cake. And Facebook. I used to be scared of Facebook. And then I got Facebook lessons from Sue. Actually Facebook is kind of boring, when it comes right down to it.
Point is, I guess I need lessons in setting up a website, too. I need someone to hold my hand and sit with me while I follow the steps. Someone who won’t mind if I phone them six times a day to say, “How do I do that?”
This must be what my mom felt like when she was first learning to use a computer. She’d been a secretary all her working life, and knew how to type stuff like crazy, with a 700 word per minute average speed. But then technology took over and she had to learn how to use a computer. Then it wasn’t so much about typing letters as it was about clicking and dragging and buttons and shortcuts… She eventually figured out most stuff, but still phones me once in a while wondering how to fix something that screwed up. [now that she has a Mac I hardly ever hear from her anymore, same as my bro-in-law said about me when I got mine]
I guess I’ll eventually get this figured out, too, but I’ve dipped my toe in and it’s freezing cold. I need some scuba gear.