Rough around the edges

The ‘making’ of a blog, not an easy task to complete.

Ahh - you got suckered into visiting my blog? I pity, but at the same time thank, you.

I’ve dabbed into blogging numerous times over the past couple of years (I was actually told sometime last week that couple means "two" and should never be used in place of "few", so I apologize for that - where I come from, couple means any number that is less than "too much", I know, intense.) but I never stick to it, I end up commenting on numerous blogs, giving ideas to others and always pondering "what if I started blogging?".

Today, I wonder no more. I followed advice given by @daveIxD and @whitneyhess (don’t tell me you’re wondering about those ‘@’ signs - Twitter is the new information sharing platform! Don’t believe me? @Armano will definitely convince you) and I did the "one-click install" for the WordPress Plugin provided by Dreamhost. Please note, "One-click install" doesn’t imply it being easy, specially if you’re like me and decide to take the "Expert" route without any knowledge of the plugin and what are the different practices to setting it up. It took me close to 3 hours to "set it up" and I’m still not done.

And with that - we’ve arrived to the point of this, my first blog post.

If you’re pondering whether to blog or not, I’ll tell you what I told my inner self "it’s up to you, do it because you want to, not because you have to", somewhat simple rule.

Made up your mind? Great - this, if I could do it over again, is a list of things to do, prior to actually "blogging" that I’d follow:

1. Consult with your host into the setup for any publication plugins. For the purpose of this post and due to my limited (fine, VERY limited) knowledge of anything else, we’ll keep this to WordPress.
2. Go to the WordPress site and read the "Where to Start "
3. Blog!

Yeah, that’s it.

Welcome to my blog - I’d say "hang on tight, it’s going to be a bumpy ride" but it’s way too cliche.

Until my next post,

Eduardo