I’ve thought long and hard about whether to share my pain getting to this point. No matter. If I can inspire and perspire and help someone else lessen that experience, that’s the goal.

The blogging quest has been arduous. Is it me? As @GrantGriffiths points out “@Soulati, you’re making this too hard.” Grant is the maker of the WordPress Headway theme; of course, he’s wayyyy beyond any 101 of installation and design. Tutorials on Lynda.com were fabulous, especially for the how-to-self-install WordPress on your own Web site, which I did. The WordPress documentation (instructions), when read in tandem with the Lynda tutorial, were helpful, but still daunting.

Once the WordPress foundation went live, the Headway install took two minutes, exactly as was suggested by the gurus.

Then the design fun began. It’s been cool using the visual editor and seeing colors and fonts immediately; it’s so simple. Where I failed is how to get those darn widgets and sidebars to work; it is NOT intuitive, I don’t care what you say. They’re all here now, although you scroll to infinity to get there. I’m working on it!

What about these bold colors, I asked my colleague yesterday? And, she so politely said, “when I see these colors, I see you, Jayme.” Uh-huh. Probably need to think about the overall design one more time, then the content layout, then the header logo (not there yet).

I’m pretty excited I designed a Favicon using a JohnHaydon YouTube tutorial in about the same time he did. Would be remiss not mentioning the fab resources in @remarkablogger and Headway Hacks, along with Grant Griffiths and Clay Griffiths. And, then there are those other moral supporters i.e. @MarkWSchaefer who blogs at {grow}. Mark provided my inspiration to get here from there; he also kindly posted a first comment about inspiring and perspiring which was so fitting, I’m borrowing it.

It takes a village, you know. Koodles!