Comments on: Overcoming The Technology Hurdle To Blogging

By: dedicated server

dedicated server — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:20:16 +0000

Wow. Your focus is awesome and a great example for others.By writing it down you are creating a sense of accountability and structure to your goals.keep it up.keep blogging

By: Sarge

Sarge — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:51:29 +0000

Good points David. I don't think you need to learn everything technical but it's very good to learn the basics in most areas. Even if it's just to get an understanding.

I personally like to know a bit about most technical things to do with blogging. I do have a degree in multimedia which helps enormously but technology changes every day. It's great to learn something new, understand it and then apply it all on your own

By: Virtual Server

Virtual Server — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:06:59 +0000

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By: Money Matters

Money Matters — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:05:23 +0000

I've learned enough about the technology side of it to make myself dangerous – no more no less. I can do the basics and even a few advanced things in wordpress/php/etc, but ask for some more advanced things, i'm lost. I know enough to get me by, and the rest I either hire someone to do for me, or I just let it slide. I like to focus on other more important things that will make me money.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:59:42 +0000

The key is to keep it simple, reversible and repeatable.

Understand every step if possible, if not, write everything down.

I've written lot in other places about how to teach oneself programming, and the above practices will go a long way for anyone.

By: Louis

Louis — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:04:13 +0000

I simply define a clear goal, then spend all my energy and focus searching for information, studying them and implementing them step by step each day.

Of course, Google is my good friend walking with me.

By: Deneil Merritt

Deneil Merritt — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:32:59 +0000

I pretty much learned all the coding I know from google, copying others, and tweaks here and there.

By: jimi jones

jimi jones — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:23:10 +0000

Good post.
I started using computers around 1980 and can recall my first attempt at building a website. I didn't know diddly-squat, but soon found the “view source” feature and copied the code of ther sites and tinkered around with it.

My advice to others: You must realized that no explosion is going to occur if you screw up, just get started. You may be pleasantly surprised at what you can accomplish. Not to over-simplify, but coding is really nothing more than learning how to speak a new language. Yes, it will be difficult at first, but trial and error brings progress.

By: Leslie, The Freebie Guy

Leslie, The Freebie Guy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:48:22 +0000

I used to run an online website design company. It was an interesting time because I taught myself to design basic websites. Everytime I got a project there was an inevitable question: Do you know how to do “this”. There was always something I didn't know how to do, but whenever I was asked the question my answer was always – “Yes indeed”.

That would begin my quest. I'd head over to google and figured out how to do it, since my clients had already paid, at least to some extent. You'd be surprised as to what all you can find in a google search. You can basically teach yourself to do ANYTHING.

On the other hand, it's a good idea to outsource those tasks even early on. You can get people to do it at a very affordable cost, even for someone strapped for cash, if you know where to look.

By: Doug Dillard

Doug Dillard — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:06:48 +0000

Like you David... I learned on my own. I have been doing this online business stuff for around 9 years now and I think (if I remember correctly) the first site I built was using Netscape. I think they use to have some sort of website creator built into it. From there I moved on to some software program call Hotdog (I think that was it) from some company in Australia. It had all sorts of add-ons you could buy to give your site more functions. It was the great web design software I could find back in the day.

I think I was one of the people in San Diego to have a site running PHP as well. Back in the early 2000 I saw some site that was running PHP3 on their site and it was way cool. I just had to have it for a domain reseller site I wanted to create, so I contacted dozens of programmers all over the US and no one had ever heard of PHP. Finally I had some guys from Russia create the backend for the site, and ever since then I have loved PHP. I know just enough to get myself in trouble now.

Same with designing... I can pop out a site pretty fast nowadays, but I would rather pay someone to do it and just make simple modifications myself.

I don't think everyone needs to know how to design and/or program... but it is good to know enough that you don't have to call a programmer or designer each time you want to make a small change to your site... as it can be expensive and you usually have to wait a while to get it done.