Building a Web Site

I want to tell you about my experience building a web site. Now, keep in mind that I was only introduced to the cyber world beyond emailing about a year ago. It really began when my daughter and I were planning her wedding, and she lived across the state. She would give me web sites that she had been looking at. Pretty soon I began finding web sites to suggest to her! I became consumed with wedding web sites. After the wedding I was sort of lost. Two things that I kept doing automatically were walking through the wedding aisles at Hobby Lobby and Michaels and looking at wedding information on the web! Finally, I realized I needed to move on with my life. That fall, my younger daughter went to college, my married daughter and her husband had moved to Colorado, and I had retired from teaching. So, I started playing with the computer again. I checked my email daily, sometimes several times a day. Mostly junk or forwards. Now, I hear people complain about getting forwards. I don't. Because that means someone has connected to me by email, and I didn't have that many friends who emailed! Besides, forwards are inspirational, funny, or informative (taken with a grain of salt) until you have seen the same one 10 times! Then I moved on to Facebook. It became a way of keeping up with my kids. I could send them a note, and they would respond (as opposed to calling them and never getting an answer--have you ever noticed that? My younger daughter has her phone with her at all times so she can get her calls--but when its from me, she never hears it:) So Facebook became fun. I could see if my daughters had changed anything on their profiles the night before, so I would know they were still there! I even became friends with some of their friends on Facebook. And then, some other moms I knew got on Facebook. What fun. I discovered a Mary Kay network on Facebook and now I had a new focus for my cyber world. But alas, the excitement died down. Then I stumbled on to a web site called The Pink Renegade. I'm still not sure how. I think I googled in Mary Kay looking for anything interesting about something I was involved in. The Pink Renegade is about marketing products through home party plans. But she also introduced me to the world of internet marketing. First, I was introduced to blogs. I'd heard of blogs. I had no idea that there were so many about so many different subjects. After being a teacher for 31 years, I was sort of used to giving out information that I think others needed to learn :) So I thought--"Hey, this would be fun." So I started this blog. Now, just a few weeks later I am building a web site! I am working with a wonderful web hosting company, and they are making it so simple. It would have to be simple for me to understand! I will let you know when I have something online for you to look at. Stay tuned for further details... Sept.1,2008 I now have several pages on my web site, For My Daughter's Wedding.  Please take a look and let me know what you think (just remember it is a work in progress).