What a sense of relief that this blog is seeing the light of day!  All I have to do now is write up some good content,  which I hope will prove valuable and useful.  It was the technical stuff that was my stumbling block, and I did ask myself why I didn’t outsource it to somebody more qualified?

Apart from the money… which may not have been a big factor I really wanted to learn how to do it.  I am fascinated by technology, and want to find out how it works so that it can do the best job possible.  But it does mean that I have taken longer to get into the blog party than was necessary.

Still I now feel much more comfortable with registering domain names, setting up hosting, changing the DNS and downloading WordPress.  Oh yes and I am more familiar with the difference between Linux and Windows hosting and that lots of hosting companies in the UK do not offer Fantastico.  This could have been an issue as I hear that it is better to have your site hosted in your resident country – but I didn’t want to manually install WordPress so have gone for Hostgator which is based in the US.

It seems as though I have gone into the forest and personally grappled hand to hand with a bear and won!

From worrying about doing things wrong to having a lot more confidence that I can make the technical stuff work has been a fantastic learning experience.  Geekdom is far away but I am a lot less geek-free!  Yay!

In the past I had started blogs hosted on blogspot, as well as one on WordPress.com. Even though they were simplicity itself I was less committed, and knew they they were not essentially my property. Perhaps the learning curve in itself is a valuable experience.

This time this blog and I are in it for the long haul, and completely confident that we will get there! Watch this space for the quality content as that is also part of the plan.