Kentuckienne
Supporting Vendor
- Oct 9, 2016
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- Roommates include Gus, Blue and gold macaw rescue and Coco, secondhand amazon
I'm finally made a tiny success after a long time of being mired in the unknowns, can I just vent a bit? You won't think less of me? I'm wondering how steep a curve is still ahead for the WikiBeaks project. Registering as a 501(c)(3) organization was complicated enough...then getting signed up with TechSoup took a while, but they helped with donated software and advice, including QuickBooks (which I still need to learn)...a local bank donated a free business bank account for us ... Google put me through some changes but in the end gave us free G Suite apps for mail, collaboration tools and the like...but building the website is murder!
I played with Wix while researching options...WordPress sure seemed more powerful...three days learning WP and putting together a prototype site, and I became convinced that it was a better platform, and also that I wasn't getting anything else done, and had no idea of how much there still was to learn...so I bailed and went crawling back to Wix. At least I can get a site up fairly quickly. (the working prototype is here, if anyone wants to see... https://kentuckienne.wixsite.com/wikibeaks) Be gentle with me, I'm working on it. You may think you could write something much better - please do!
And I still don't have by-laws, or a board of dictators. I'm beginning to think I'm insane. Then again, maybe I'm farther along than I see. Maybe the worst is over, and more of the infrastructure is in place than I think. Maybe I've found most of the pieces and just need to keep fitting them together. HAHAHAH, I am sure there are more opportunities for learning ahead than I can imagine. Maybe it helps to be nuts. Sometimes it seems like I have spent so much time on this, and got so little to show for it...either I'm not very competent or this is difficult. My money's on Difficult.
Anyway, it's been a slow slog through an tortuous terrain toward a hazy horizon, so I haven't been able to keep up with all the new parronts. I check in on the antics of the RickeyBird and Nigel and Salty but don't have time to contribute any entertaining comments. And now I must toddle off the bed so I can stare at the ceiling wondering if I'm nuts, which is infinitely more comfortable than sitting in a chair wondering if I'm nuts. Thanks for reading to the end of all this whining, and wish me luck!
I played with Wix while researching options...WordPress sure seemed more powerful...three days learning WP and putting together a prototype site, and I became convinced that it was a better platform, and also that I wasn't getting anything else done, and had no idea of how much there still was to learn...so I bailed and went crawling back to Wix. At least I can get a site up fairly quickly. (the working prototype is here, if anyone wants to see... https://kentuckienne.wixsite.com/wikibeaks) Be gentle with me, I'm working on it. You may think you could write something much better - please do!
And I still don't have by-laws, or a board of dictators. I'm beginning to think I'm insane. Then again, maybe I'm farther along than I see. Maybe the worst is over, and more of the infrastructure is in place than I think. Maybe I've found most of the pieces and just need to keep fitting them together. HAHAHAH, I am sure there are more opportunities for learning ahead than I can imagine. Maybe it helps to be nuts. Sometimes it seems like I have spent so much time on this, and got so little to show for it...either I'm not very competent or this is difficult. My money's on Difficult.
Anyway, it's been a slow slog through an tortuous terrain toward a hazy horizon, so I haven't been able to keep up with all the new parronts. I check in on the antics of the RickeyBird and Nigel and Salty but don't have time to contribute any entertaining comments. And now I must toddle off the bed so I can stare at the ceiling wondering if I'm nuts, which is infinitely more comfortable than sitting in a chair wondering if I'm nuts. Thanks for reading to the end of all this whining, and wish me luck!