Today is a good day to start a personal web site. Everyone else has one. Why not me? I’ve been wanting to do this for about five years. A personal web site. A place where I can log in from anywhere, jot down a few notes, let everyone in the world read my prose and purpose and patter.
It’s not that there are few tools to make the online journalistic process easy.
Today I wrote a lengthy article on web site development tools for Mac360. Pick your poison. WordPress. Blogger. Joomla. EE.
There are more ways to express yourself with a web site than anyone would have imagined merely 10 years ago. Many are free and come with packaged designs. You get what they give you.
Desktop publishing swept the world in the late 80s and early 90s. From the year 2000, personal publishing has gone online and mainstream with easy to use online publishing tools.
Some are complex tools that let you create what you want, the way you want it. That’s my route. My colors. My design. My layout. My code. My words.
Now that it’s here, why? Why put myself through the genuinely difficult task of building something complex, only to be faced with another genuinely complex task of thinking of something to say?
The former takes effort, the latter merely requires a keyboard and being awake.
For better or wose, through the good times and bad times, I now have a place to say what’s on my mind. As my mother would say, “Tera, that won’t take long.”
She was right, of course. Mothers are like that.
Tera, what a pleasant surprise. Let me be the first to congratulate you on a job well done. I like the personal touch, the simplicity, the color scheme, even the name of the site itself just says “Tera.” You did this all by yourself? I’m impressed. Welcome to the 21st century, darling.
This looks like it could be a good time to see what it takes to run a great internet site like Mac360. What would a cool thing if you put out a podcast once or twice, that would be supercool.
Looking forward to the content. It’s a beautiful site. Apple should license it and include it in iWeb.
Thanks for sharing your personal history and thoughts. And good luck with your health struggles, I understand those issues very well.
The only real life is a well observed one, and you have that.
Hi Tera,
I like your writing style! I have bookmarked this site and I agree that Apple should include this style in iWeb. Mac 360 is one of my favorite sites, so good luck with this one.
Thank your Mom for us, Tera. She knows you’ve got what it takes to make for fascinating reading.
Back before blogs, in 1996, I made a ‘personal’ website. I wrote it from scratch in html as a successful self-teaching exercise. I am woman, hear me roar. It was designed as an ad for my consulting biz, with a pert black and white snapshot of moi, and hidden patches mined around the elegant black background linked to several satirical pages, also of my own creation. I put it up, and forgot about it. When I checked a couple years later, it had well over 500 hits. That’s almost one hit every day. I was astounded. Who knew? Ya think I’d get one lousy date from it? Not a chance.