Nevergirl’s

Okay, going slightly mad here. A dotcom is a lot of work. It’s almost as – if not more – demanding than wrangling a huge toddler into a lilliputian city select stroller. One, it doesn’t run on its own. Two, you have to feed it lots of plugins, widgets, and codes and most of them, dear God, entail the use of ftp.

The only good thing out of this is that my learning curve has improved immensely. That, and the ability to perform basic computer-related functions (think typing and mouse-clicking) while lying down with buttocks propped by two fat pillows. No, no, I am not a contortionist. The pillow-propping is done for a good reason and not because I’m masochistic that way. But I digress. As I was saying, running my own dotcom has improved my learning curve by leaps and bounds. I now know that a widget is not a variant of the word midget and that plugins neither have sockets nor do they actually require physical plug-in into one. I can now download themes and upload them to filezilla, never mind that the only directory I feel brave enough to touch is wp-content, nothing else.

Still, there’s still so much to do. I haven’t figured out how to track blog stats. Iris, that tech geek who has successfully duped people into thinking she’s a bimbo, suggested I use google analytics. But goshdarned it, I cannot figure out where to embed my codes!

This is frustrating. I’ll go play Simply Smashing with the little girl now. Catching plates and getting scolded by a mustached rabbit over the ones I break beats babysitting a dotcom.

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