WordPress Woes
January 5, 2009 by admin
Filed under Social Media Marketing, Welcome
Are you one of the almost 8000 people who are starting an internet business every day? Of course you need a website, right? Now I’m sure you’ve heard about WordPress and how easy it is to have a website up and running in no time at all. No more expensive webmasters and best of all it is FREE. All you need to do is choose a domain name, sign up for hosting and then head over to <a href=”http://www.WordPress.org”>www.WordPress.org</a> . There you pick your site template and hit the one touch install. In 15 minutes you will be online and your site is ready to add your content. Does it sound too good to be true?
Well don’t believe everything you hear. This may all be true if you are a techie kind of person but what about a non techie baby boomer like myself? Believing this story started a month of what I describe as Website hell.
I may not be techie but I am a Virtual Assistant so I know my way around computers. I was sure I could figure this out. I did all the initial preparation steps and even bought the book WordPress for Dummies.
For weeks I struggled with my install, wasting precious time foolishly on a skill I was not going to ever need again. WordPress installation was not a service I planned to offer. I needed to be concentrating on launching my business not launching my website. Finally somewhere between My SQL database, my c-panel, and my FTP I cried uncle. This was ridiculous. Trying to save money was actually costing me money because I was not focusing where needed to.
The best thing I ever did was to find someone who specializes in WordPress Blog/website installation. If you are in my same position and you need some help I highly recommend Kathleen at <a href=”http://www.thesavvyva.com/”>http://www.thesavvyva.com/</a> They forget to tell you about the free themes. They can be somewhat unforgiving about changes. Most people don’t like everything in the exact position it comes in. We all want to tweak things but when you change one thing it often changes something else. Then when you fix that, something else changes. It really helps to have an expert to navigate those pitfalls.
I hope you have learned something from my experience, I know I have? I should have paid attention to my own tagline, <strong>Outsource & Automate to Find Time for Living</strong>. But maybe my experience will save you some time and aggravation in your business.
