Website Woes

Facebook pages are a breeze to create.  I've made many of them and still maintain about ten of them, from memory pages for lost loved ones and general grieving survival hints, to favorite videos and even a recipe page.  I have Facebook pages for various business ventures I've dabbled in, and more.

So when I thought to make a website separate from Facebook, I though it would be relatively simple.  Not so. I'm trying to use WordPress software, which apparently is higher advanced in scope than my software education.  Add to that the silly mistakes I make, like forgetting to SAVE-- well, let's just say, I may get it figured out in a few years.

All I wanted to do was have a page for my writing and my art, and I wanted it be made separately   from Facebook, which I have become increasingly paranoid about their privacy policies and algorithms.  I have all these other pages about my other interests, but not so much where I felt safe in posting my art and writing, for fear of someone stealing my work and making the millions I should be earning from it.  Is that so wrong?

I'm thinking I need to go to Amazon and buy a book on WordPress.  That might be a huge help to me, if I can understand their lingo.  Software often assumes we all understand their specialized terms and phrases, and how to do what needs to be done to obtain the results we wish.  They don't take into account that I'm a living fossil image, older than dirt, who is just trying to make a website where I can showcase and perhaps sell my work.

I am following several other authors and artists, who have webpages where they do what I want to do.  Perhaps I can email them and ask them how they did it.  But they might have simply done what I should have done in the first place and hired someone better versed in WordPress to create their site for them.  I'm not sure I have the funds to be that extravagant.  At least not yet.  I need to finish my novel, and get it published and market it into a best seller before I will have any funds, and that's probably a pipe dream in itself.

So, in the meantime, if you don't see me on Facebook that much, or if I seem irritable or depressed, it's probably because I'm still fighting the complexities of WordPress.  If I ever do get this website created, you will know it, because I'll be shouting from the rooftops, tweeting and Facebook posting it all over the world.

Pray for me.

Dixie Barnes
Aspiring Author, Artist and
Website Creator

P.S.  The photos are from our garden this summer, and the latest of my photos, taken this spring.