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There is a thin line indeed!

And I took that thin line into my trembling yet infallible, small (like really small … a 5 year old has bigger hands than me) hands and crumpled it up.

My website would not defeat me!

So here’s the thing about not tending to your website for over 3 years … it turns into a gigantic, unimaginably time consuming world of chaos. All the updates! All the bugs! All the changes just begging to be made! My website was all of that and more.

Years ago, in a land not to far away … like maybe 5 miles … my beautiful, wonderful, talented husband did me a small favor and created me a basic run of your mill website. The land rejoiced as a website had been made! It had most of the things I wanted … my photography … my writing … my design … What more can a girl ask for? Right?

Well time passed and the princess (that’s me in case you were wondering … and no I’m not sure when this turned into a fairy tail, but we’re gonna go with it.) sighed and thought, “I want more!” as princesses usually do. I mean, you’re not really a princess if you’re not always truly hoping to be queen now are you?

Well the “I want more!” feelings grew and grew until one day they were so big they felt like they were going to overtake her.

So she searched and she searched and she practiced and she prayed that one day she would be the Queen of Digital Marketing. All that photography, all that writing, it could all be used and shared and made bigger and better! If you need more information on the same, you can get it from Brisbane website design and their services.

And so she decided to take a class. She would study EVERYTHING there was to know about digital marketing.

And she did!

She studied and worked and learned it all, because learning is the greatest tool in the universe, and to be a Queen, she needed to be great!

Okay, so maybe we got a little off topic there, but the point is … I grew.

I grew past my once fancy little website and I needed more.

So I took an undertaking … a little path to success … or kinda big as it turns out.

The fact of the matter was that WordPress had changed. And I needed to change with it.

There were three things I desperately wanted my website to do:

1. 1. Show my past Digital Marketing work as well as show my present Digital Marketing Certifications
   2. Link to all my social media … Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter (Can’t remember the last time I tweeted, but what the hell! Let’s include it anyway) and Instagram.
   3. Update my Writing page to have my old Blog web address on there so people, if they so chose to stalk me in such a way, could view my writings of the past. (It was pretty funny after all!)

I mean that was some simple stuff, right?

Wrong!

WordPress had a whole different plan in mind for me.

The updates! Oh the updates! Three YEARS since I had made any updates and they were all staring me in the face and taunting me with their “Download Me!” pleas.

And the plug ins!!!!

Oh my ever living world why did I need so many plug ins???

 

 

 

 

 

So much Deleting!!!

And then it came time for updating my portfolio. But how? Where was it stored? How could I change it? SO MANY QUESTIONS!

And dear old husband … so awesome and full of knowledge on all things web design related … he was at a loss.

What’s a girl to do when the guy who created the website couldn’t even remember how to change it?

So I did what I could and I called it a day.

But then …

(Here’s where it gets really good guys!)

I came back the next day with such determination and hope and I tinkered. I tinkered through all the things. ALL THE THINGS!!! Until finally I had figured it out.

REJOICING!!! MUCH REJOICING!!!

I had figured out how to add to my portfolio. I had figured out how to add my social media. I had figured out how to add my links to my other websites!

SO MUCH REJOICING!!!

And that my friends is how success was born today.

With a little determination and the refusal to be defeated. I believed I could and so I did.

Which begs the question … if I could defeat a WordPress layout in two days … what other awesomeness can I achieve?

Only time will tell. Stay tuned … the awesomeness shall continue!