So far, I’ve been talking about EFT and the fact that I’m starting a business to work with people doing something I’m passionate about. And so far, I haven’t yet ranted about the frustrations of it all. Well, now’s that time – starting with web building! Next time, I’ll know better, but I hope it’ll be much easier!
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Knowing nothing about web site development, and no start up income to speak of to spend thousands on a professionally built site, I researched how to do this with site builders that are out there. I have an idea of how I want the site to look, the things I want to add to it as I grow and learn more about what I can do with a site. And I wanted a trusted company to host my domain. It’s all Greek to me, so support and easy to use features are important!
So I went with Go Daddy, and it’s v7. That would seem to be the most current, easy to use, support friendly site builder they have available. They have a good reputation and tons of templates to choose from. I get to pick from their free pictures, taking the headache out of the copyright infringement issue – and anything that increases the efficiency of how I do things is always a plus for me! I mean, I keep tissue boxes in each room (car too!), even if they connect to each other, just so they’re on hand when my son or I have need of them, I don’t have to go far!
So as I get my site info to begin building it – understand, that means I paid for my domain name and monthly hosting for the next year – I find out several things right off the bat, annoyances I can’t quite wrap my mind around how they even make sense. One of the first things was domain names, like the cost of a .com! I know it’s a commercial website, and we all have heard you have to spend money to make money, but choosing a domain name and then not being able to grasp that it’s thousands for just that .com, that was something else to be sure! But it certainly didn’t stop there, the hits just kept coming for me to build my simple site!
For one thing, I learned that I’m stuck with whatever template I chose to begin with – unless, of course, I’d like to do all this site building stuff again! I went with that, thinking I could have Word copies of my pages and just past them into new pages of a new template when I eventually choose to change things up. Trust me, I will! My living room and home office can attest to that 🙂 Then I learned that my simplistic response to that problem couldn’t work, you can’t copy and paste because it doesn’t work with html (What in the world is that exactly anyways?!?!) so it’s all just staying the same or being rebuilt from scratch when the time comes. Wonderful. That fits right into my idea of efficient…
Now comes the part where I figure I can make my site like any other out there, ya know, with pages, sub pages, buttons and organized the way I want it to be organized. For instance, a disclaimer link on each page, so I cover myself legally on the site, for my business. Hahaha, I’m laughing just thinking about how naive that was on my part! Silly Mommy, as my son would say! Nope, I’m stuck with what they want to let me have.
Sure, your business webpage can have 1000 pages, but the navigation will remain at the top. And each page can have up to 3 subpages. Want to organize your pages so they actually are subpages? Good luck with that! It took me several attempts and an unknown amount of time Googling how to create the subpages before I found a very recent post about how to do it. And guess what? Silly Mommy again! Why in the world would that have actually worked for me? I had to save what I’d done and stop for the night, to start again the next day – not once but twice – before suddenly, retrying the same thing finally worked to create my subpages!Â
I always planned to have a blog on my site, as well as a forum for various discussions because I want people to be able to add their questions and comments, testify about their own experiences. I want suggestions on things they want to hear about or what would make things better for them. And thank you Go Daddy, but it’s just not an option to add a forum with this upgraded v7.
No problem I think, after I rant and rave for a while about the stupidity of features being unavailable on an upgrade, I’ll figure out how to start a blog elsewhere because here’s a widget (I’m sorry, but a widget? Sounds like a character on a show my son would watch!) that says Blog/RSS Feed, and when I try it out, it has a blog and the Oh-so-NOT-helpful help page says I can add my own there and it will show, as long as my blog is published. Well, thanks to WordPress, which I understand is the top recommended Blogging site available, I have a blog 🙂 Yay me. But somehow, v7 cannot recognize my blog. Soo yeah, I still can’t link the two so any traffic I get from one can go to the other.
Now it’s late, and my thoughts are about as disorganized as the plan for this upgrade v7 website builder. I hope that in the future, I find the use of words such as “all new, upgraded, better version” will actually live up to their meanings!
Now my ranting must come to an end, I’m sure I’ll get the blog linked up to my site sometime soon. Meanwhile, I’ve read another blog summarizing the Top Five Regrets of The Dying from a book of the same name, and I can’t wait to talk about how EFT could help us all avoid those regrets!
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