My Website is up and running!!

Very excited night. Feel like a kid in a candy shop. Got my website up and running. Its under construction at the moment, but we will be good to go in a few days.

Now, I'm still learning how to create and set up web sites. Just started working with a friend that offered me a job doing this. I walked through a set up with him last week, took notes, and thought I had everything under control. LOL!! Could I have have been more wrong.

Here's how my afternoon started:
Right after lunch I received an email stating that everything was a go, my domain name was established, I had the go ahead to load up the program to run my new web site. Ok, I can do this. Dug out my notes, opened up a web browser and my other program to start work. My web information wouldn't load. 20 minutes later, I found the problem. You need to put the dot com after the domain name. Ahhh, that makes more since. Updated notes, check. Got busy working on the other steps. Not even 1/2 way into it, domain name and/or password didn't work. hmmm...what's wrong here. 10 minutes later realized my notes were wrong. Updated notes, check. Fixed problem and moved on. That was the story of my day. If I couldn't figure out my problem I had to email my friend too. Then wait forever for him to reply back. IM would have been quicker dude!

In the middle of my working, interruptions happen all the time. I have three kids that I homeschool. DS3 (youngest) needs to tell me about what he just read. Not only does he have to tell me; he has to demonstrate it too. Because BS3 has my undivided attention, our dog Bree thinks he's being left out. Jealous and trying to be cute, he tried to climb into my lap. Bree is a huge dog and to add to it I'm sitting on the computer chair. Chaos insues until I get tired of it all. Dog goes out, I assign Jacob something else to do, back to my task at hand. Oh, wait. The dyer hasn't buzzed in a while, need to check on the clothes. Walk through the kitchen and see a mess one of the kids made. When did they do this? They are working on their assignments...maybe I need to watch them more closely.

Holler at them to see who made the mess. DS2..."Oh I forgot". "Well then get in here and clean it up". March myself to the basement, clothes are still damp. Need to have hubby look that the heating element. Turn the dryer on for 30 minutes. Go back up stairs and think I need to sweep the stairs, they are getting dusty. NO...focus on what you are doing. DS2 is eating, not cleaning up when I get to the top of the stairs. grrrrr.... after a quick talk he starts cleaning it up.

At 10:30 tonight I finally get the darn website set up. WHEW!! Think I can still walk...my butt hurts though. This chair isn't made for sitting too long in it.

As for my plans for the site; wanting to sell forms for budgeting or household chores that I created (some things maybe for free) and selling my crochet items that I make. Got a girlfriend that knits and she's thinking of putting her items on my site too. Between the both of us, we just might have a little business on our hands. Until then, I will hold off putting the web address on here. Want to get it set up first.