A Blog of Her Own

I hadn't intended this blog to be so much about blogging.

But I have needed to spend a lot of time just figuring out the mechanics of blogging.

Yes, I jumped in at the deep end, starting my first blog and the Nester's 31-day writing challenge on the very same day.

It's been good fun and I have learnt a lot, but I haven't been able to spend as much time on my re-invention, let alone write about it. And that was the intention.

From now on, I will only write about the mechanics of blogging on Saturdays, when I will write about what I did to the blog in the past week, trying to provide useful links on how I managed each step.

The big change for today is that I added an "about me" page -- very basic, like everything on this blog. It's over there in the top-right. Doing that, this blog was very helpful. It is a bit outdated as it refers to the old dashboard, but it gave me the information I needed to understand these directions for the new dashboard.

Baby steps

Did I mention I am a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of person?

Well, here's proof.

The deadline for entering a blog in The Nester's 31 days challenge was twelve hours after I decide to start blogging.

So: in the next three hours, I created a blog, and:

• wrote my first post
• realized I needed to make a button to link up
• realized I didn't know what a button was, let alone how to make one
• found this post /http://amylynnandrews.com/html-clickable-image/
• found PicMonkey
• and played with that 'til I had made a button!

After that linking up was easy.

 And this morning, I found my first comment! How exciting is that!