DIY
Take matters into your own hands — Do It Yourself.
From the book:
#19 Launch Your Own Website
“In recent years, technology has gone out of its way to embrace people who don’t naturally embrace it—people like me, and perhaps you. I certainly enjoy the wired (and wireless) life: I talk on my cell, watch digital cable, write on my laptop, and spend every waking minute online. But I don’t get how these things work, and I don’t really want to think too much about it. Technical information overwhelms me.
Still, as a freelance writer, I need to sell myself and my services. Isn’t that the point of having a site—to promote your catering/chiropractic/carpet-cleaning business? When my first book came out and I finally decided to move forward, my husband offered to build me a website. He’d created a very serviceable one for himself using templates from a software package.
I would sooner have had him perform a splenectomy on me, so little confidence did I have in his technological abilities. It was a classic case of transference: He wasn’t the one who couldn’t fathom the process—I was. So I paid a web designer to build my site, as if she had been born knowing this stuff and didn’t need to learn it herself.
Today, there are so many websites about building websites that they completely fill four Google pages. Some services are free; other sites charge for various things. All provide templates for you to fill in with words and pictures. On some sites, you can even copy and drag content, photos, and video off the Internet….”
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