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How I Built My Website
I'm so impressed! My website is up. The links are working. I'm getting lots of traffic. I'm indexed by Google and Yahoo Search. And I did it all by myself...without knowing HTML, FrontPage or the like!
Given that I'm taking a fast run through my sixth decade and am a self-labelled techno ditz...who woulda thunk? What do I know about computers?
Not much. I can turn my PC on and off. I can write letters and create a basic spreadsheet. I have trouble installing software even when I follow the Almighty Install Wizard's instructions and I have no idea how to put an icon on the desktop. I don't know how to connect the scanner, the printer, or the speakers to the CPU...though I'm told that if I upgrade (again) that all those little plugs will be colour coded and I should be able to handle it.
It's not that I'm stupid or lazy...I just don't want to learn anything else about computers...especially something so esoteric that it goes by the initials HTML instead of by a real name. Sheesh! I'm seventy years old! Why would I care?
How I got to this sad state of affairs.
I bought my first computer in 1982, the year IBM launched their first PC. It had a one-sided floppy disk drive and a much touted 64k of RAM! I was puffed!!
But the following week the new two-sided floppy disk drives appeared on the market and I became a charter member of Computer Upgraders Anonymous.
As the months and years passed by, if I wasn't upgrading hardware I had to shell out for new and improved software. And while I was trying to keep up with information overload on the personal computer home front I was continually inundated with new things to learn at work. At the time I was employed as a temporary secretary. I moved from one assignment to another sometimes in the same week. Almost none of the companies I worked for used the same computer equipment. It meant I had to learn new keystroke patterns to operate whatever software package my newest employer had installed. Nothing was standard or intuitive in those good old days.
Ten years later I'd had enough. I just refused to learn one more thing about computers. I'm not proud of it. The position doesn't even serve me well. But, enough is enough. Besides - why else did my computer engineering son think I held on by my financial fingernails while he was going to school except to devote an appropriate portion of his life in coming to my aid?
So did my son build my website?
That's the trouble. He used to do it for me but finally decided to get a life of his own and abandoned me to my own resources. So no, he didn't build my website...the ingrate.
Who Built the Website?
I did it myself and I didn't have to learn HTML or any other alphabeteeze. I didn't even have to learn Frontpage, which is lucky because I bought that software in 1999 and went cross-eyed on page 11 of the manual.
A few months ago I found a company that has developed software that simply lets me type my thoughts in real English, click on the 'Build It' button and voila!...live on the world wide web.
Well...it's a little bit more complicated but not much.
The really, really great thing about my web host is that the company provides tools that allow the likes of me to generate traffic, pardon me I should say TRAFFIC, to my site. I have so many visitors that I've even impressed my computer engineering son. He's re-doing his own websites using my brilliant advice so that he can catch up with me! (I always said I taught him everything he knows.)
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