BenC30

Think I will very carefully & gracefully apologise to the group and tell them my effort to get them a website has been a mistake…. perhaps it is best to call this one quits and go learn a new language or new craft. Time to give technology a break! Sitting in front of a computer all day at work and all night too, is no way to lead a normal and healthy life.

I’m outta here!

I just wanted to create a simple but elegant website for a local group, that wants to bring the community together. I have used iWeb before, which is a physical piece of software installed on my iMac, which then gets uploaded to an FTP server. After using iWeb previously, I just wanted to find a different way to create a website that looked half decent. So far my iWeb efforts have been acceptable to most, but nothing special or indeed amazing. I thought that by downloading WordPress 3.4.1 I could create a website in a similar way to iWeb, but something that looked better.

So far, I am now so put off designing a website using iWeb and WordPress and wish that I had never got involved with any of it. I have never been so knocked back in trying to do something on the computer, and have never been so totally confused. It appears there is other software I need to install and a load of new jargon.

Perhaps I should have done a lot more research before putting myself forward for trying to help the local group in this way…

I used to say that I was always up-to-date with technology and there was nothing on a computer that I couldn’t do… but now feel so defeated! Something that people say is easy, actually isn’t, and there is plenty more interesting and better things I could be doing with my life, instead of trying to learn a whole host of new things just to create something that actually should be simple.