Week 2 of the Partnership To Success training went rather well. Setting up my website was much easier than transferring the domain.<\/p>\n
With John’s specific and clear video instructions, I was able to update my website rather quickly…once I made time to get online.<\/p>\n
Being a webmaster isn’t just sitting at a computer all day long.\u00a0 I’m also balancing life.\u00a0 Just like anything new, I’ve still got to take care of my existing prior commitments.<\/p>\n
Things You Should Know To Set Up\u00a0A Website<\/strong><\/p>\n First, setting up a website isn’t all easy.\u00a0 There are many decisions to be made.\u00a0 For example, getting the right parts and pieces in the right places is vital.<\/p>\n Second, be sure you can make all of it work together.\u00a0 Having the right parts and pieces is only part of the challenge.\u00a0 Making sure I understand how to use them is also important.\u00a0 For example, I have new tools installed in the “back office.”\u00a0 But, tools are only as useful as the people using them.\u00a0 Without knowing what features they have and how to access those features, it is kinda useless to have these new tools.<\/p>\n Next, please remember that all the tools in the world won’t do the work for me.\u00a0 I know that tools make things easier.\u00a0 But, really, when it comes down to it, anything that happens online happens for a reason.\u00a0 Someone programmed it.\u00a0 Someone wrote it.\u00a0 And, someone clicked the button to send it out into the world.<\/p>\n Finally, just remember skipping steps doesn’t get you any closer to a goal. Oh my goodness.\u00a0 Can I just say what a pain in the butt it is to try to keep moving forward when I don’t have the information to move forward?\u00a0 For example, I requested my graphics for this site.\u00a0 It was all wonderful and easy.\u00a0 That’s not the part that went haywire.<\/p>\n When I finished ordering the graphics, I still was working on the site and continued working on other steps thinking I’d come back to add the graphics. Fortunately, I did come back to add the graphics.\u00a0 But, when I did, I didn’t know which graphics were the final graphics or which ones were drafts.\u00a0 And, since I wasn’t making time to use my desktop computer to add the graphics, I didn’t see what graphics were really being uploaded or how they looked on the site.<\/p>\n When I finally did get the graphics up and looked at it on my desktop computer, they looked bad.\u00a0 I am pretty sure that I uploaded one of the drafts instead of the final graphics.\u00a0 So, actually trying to hurry and do it when I was away from my computer made it worse.\u00a0 I ended up going back three steps instead of taking any steps forward.<\/p>\n Summary: Steps To Set Up a Website<\/strong><\/p>\n If I were to do this week’s assignments again, I would definitely make sure that I have enough time and information to work through each step one at a time instead of trying to keep going with missing information and missing tools.\u00a0 Skipping steps in a process makes more problems than solutions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Week 2 of the Partnership To Success training went rather well. 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