I started this blog late last year and then the holidays came along. As with most of us I dropped off most everything else and just enjoyed myself. Coming into the new year I reassessed the look and direction of this whole blog thing. With this new category I will   attempt to show a measured look as I learn what I’m doing. I made a mistake and started out researching too far in advance of my skills. So I went back and decided to place more effort into the real nuts and bolts of things.

I had the hosting account at GoDaddy.com. It took me quite a while to learn to navigate in their Hosting Control Center. To my eyes their site is quite cluttered. Too much advertising and  many other things that I don’t or just rarely require! I much prefer Cpanel on my other hosting sites. Anyway, that’s neither here nor there. I just had to spend a little extra time with it. My next mistake was trying to rush into putting too much stuff into the site without learning how to run WordPress.

Again, I had to back up and spend some time just looking around and trying to get the basics down. I see all of the people saying that blogging is easy! Well. Yea. It is but there is still a pretty good learning curve until you’re comfortable with all of the little ticks, clicks and boxes to be filled in so that the posts end up in the right category with proper permalinks {still working on that!} and such. That was what I spent part of the last month doing. I found that I had posts scattered around and it appeared that I just threw them at the blog in a shotgun pattern. I also had some growing pains with finding out how to hook my blog up with the hosting account so that it was more branded with b-ricky.com.

One of my main problems is that I don’t immediately ask for help. I much prefer to go out to Google until I find the knowledge that I need and/or reading reams of help files whether I understand them or not at the time. That may be the hard way to approach stuff but by the time that I’ve pounded my forehead flat with the palm of my hand I really understand what I’m doing with each new chore.

To sum up! Yes it’s easy but please be sure to spend enough time learning the ins and outs of your hosting account and Wordpress. It will save you a lot of frustration. Also don’t try to rush in full tilt boogie if you will. Blogging can be fun but don’t fall for someone that tells you that it doesn’t require some time and effort! So, follow along with me in this category as my skills grow and I maneuver through or around some of the obstacles.