TECHNOLOGY: Baby Steps

I’ve taken the initiative of setting up a website, having purchased and registered a domain (no, not susangibb.com which I wanted; someone’s taken it and not set up a site.  I’ve a sneaky suspicion that someone is me in an attempt several years ago to do this but I can’t find out for sure.) and set up a site with a host server.  That’s as far as I’ve gotten, and I’ll be learning as I go as to whether I can grab WordPress to set up a viable site or whether I start with Lunarpages’ simple version of readymade.  It’s astounding how little I know about how this whole thing works.  Weblog services such as Typepad make it so easy to create neat sites with just about all the bells and whistles that one gets a bit lax about standing up and taking over complete control.  Feeling like an idiot about these things is another reason to procrastinate.

I’m not sure how it will all play out, since I have three weblogs active right now and there was a reason for the separation.  Spinnning has been going nearly five years and I hate to lose the name but it really doesn’t cover the hyptertext weblog or class blogs as far as product identification.

There’s time to work this all out–Typepad’s good through October or November I believe.  Everything may be transferred or it may just be archived on my hard drive as I start from scratch.  It’d be sort of neat to recreate my internet persona.  This time, I might come back as thirty-something, natural blonde, five foot five, with a Masters and built like a brick….