Friday, 24 July 2015

Creating My Blog

I am a twenty year old living in the 21st century, so hopefully I will be able to make it through this course with the technological skills that means I should have.  I am not a brilliant tech savvy person but I am alright.  I am fine with simple everyday technology, not so much with new fancy things, but I am happy to and can learn new things fairly well.  While I cannot say that I am one hundred percent new to blogger I might as well be.  I have used blogger once for another assignment…five years ago, in grade ten, and only posted all of six times. Therefore, I am relearning everything.  My main problem I thought I was going to have setting up my blog was to remember my Gmail address and password that I created five years ago and haven’t used since.  I didn’t find it too hard to set up the blog.  I had more trouble trying to figure out how to get into my profile to edit it so I could see what was there.  My first post I made very short as it was just me figuring out how to do that.  Thankfully, it was pretty straight forward, and the site is easy to manoeuvre around.  I have had to ask a few questions but so far so good. I am hoping to get better and add more cool things as I go.

Our lecturer told us to limit ourselves to the time we spend on the computer in this course and I can completely understand why as I spent approximately forty minutes just playing around with the design setting of my blog.  ‘I like this colour, but ooh what shade?  This one, maybe, this one, better, this one, perfect.  There are so many nice fonts.  I like this one, but would that be too hard and annoying to read all the posts? I’ll make it the title.  I probably shouldn’t have too many different fonts all over the page.  Should I make my posts purple?  Maybe bests to stick with black.  What size should everything be? I am used to this being on the left, so that’s where I will put it.’  My thoughts, and design choices continued until I stopped myself, but I enjoyed setting up my blog.  I asked my friend where to go to put in the fish and so when I went home I searched for fish and found a penguin that I could put in which led me to a cat which I put on my blog then changed my mind and went back to the fish and wasted time changing colours and feeding them.  After being shown a fodey.com image I thought I would look at that and I managed to easily make one.  The harder part was trying to get it in a post, with one failure before succeeding.  After a confusion of instructions on the website and the obvious next step of a google search I managed to get it onto my blog.  I like how my blog is looking at this current moment.  

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