When I first received my file for DPP I read it through, cover-to-cover, before starting any exercises. This last exercise created a degree of panic and I was straight down to the local library scouring all the 'build your own website' books. Armed and dangerous, well... not really armed - but very dangerous, I found Go Daddy and purchased a domain for my website - "pepperdog19". Now satisfied that everything was going to be OK, I settled into the new course.
Some time later, I glanced at my web page only to find that Go Daddy were using to advertise dog products - did you ever???? This had to stop, I needed to load some images onto my photography website. All I needed was the load button...
After another visit to the library and some quality book time reviled that this was nothing like Flickr! A big thank you goes out to my fellow OCA students and the links to their blogs. I very quickly found Weebly and calmed down, only to be irritated when I found out that I didn't need a domain. But having bought it, I was going to use it. Flipping back-and-forth between Go Daddy and Weebly I linked my domain to my web site, thankfully quite a simple process.
In my Weebly account I selected a standard format for my web layout, I found that I didn't quite like the layout and started to tweak the HTML code to change colours and relocate tabs - it was great fun. The directions on the Weebly site couldn't be easier and it took all of half an hour to set everything up. Unfortunately, it then took hours and hours while I faffed about and made totally unnecessary adjustments to my site. A great learning experience nonetheless.
The name of my site is Pdog19 Photography and it now holds my images and does not advertise dog shampoo.
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