Blogging

Welcome to my New Hosted WordPress Blog Site

Happy New Year. I hope your holidays were restful and enjoyable.

I had a more ‘restful’ holiday than I had planned due to a minor, but annoying, health issue. The result was positive though. I had alot of time to sit on the couch and blog and do research on the web. One of the more interesting developments that I have been paying attention to is how the presidential campaigns are using the internet to support and facilitate their efforts. I anticipate that the web will play the most significant role that is has to date in the upcoming campaigns. This is a result of the viability of the new web 2.0 technologies, and the new applications and tools that are taking advantage of them.

I have also been giving thought to what I want to do with my web site this year. My current site, shfwilf.wordpress.com, was intended as a personal site where I could blog about any topic of interest to me, and where I could organize my links and keep a journal. I have also used it as a tool to test out WordPress (to see if I want to stick with it as my blog app), and to build my basic blogging skills. My current blog has satisfied all of my short term objectives, and I have decided to take the next step in my blogging ‘career’. I have purchased web hosting services, and have begun to construct this new site with WordPress as my blog app.

Net is, I may not have much time to blog here for a few days/weeks as I am building my new site. I just started building it yesterday, and I have made good progress, but I still have quite a ways to go. For example; if you go to the home page for the site (lifeisanongoingprocess.com) you will see an ‘under construction’ page that does have a working link to the blog page, but once you get to the blog there is not a link back to the home page….yet – I am working on it….

This is a big step for me in my blogging learning process, so the going may be slow, and the results may be shaky at first, but I feel it is time for me to ‘take the training wheels off’ and to master more of the underlying technical skills I need to take full control of my web site presentation and functions.

I plan to keep both sites operational for the short term.
Blog on,
Carol

BTW, I am using bluehost as my hosting service. I am delighted with their service thus far. It is affordable, easy to use, good support (phone & on-line help desk), good performance, and fairly good documentation. I even got a phone call from them yesterday making sure that I was satisfied with their service, and directing me to their support phone number if I had an questions or problems.

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