Ok I will stop counting my posts soon but I am still excited about this whole blogging thing and this is post number 3!!!! 

I am so behind in my exercises at the moment I was just sent the videos to week five and I have only just completed week 2! It looks like I will have some late nights coming up to catch up. As mentioned in one of my earlier posts I have also joined up in the Thirty Day Challenge, well I am couple of weeks behind in that one too! I will talk about the Thirty Day Challenge in other posts at the moment I want to focus this one on John Thornhill’s Coaching. 

OK. So in summary to Week 1. I learnt how to register a domain name…’Jacinta’s Blog”. I kept it simple! I plan on using this blog as an all rounder about me and my life and what I am doing and learning so I thought Jacinta’s Blog summed it up nicely! The next thing I learnt was registering the hosting. Being a newbie to this whole thing I registered with the hosting company that John recommended D9hosting. I figure I can learn about other hosting companies down the track. I also kept it simple and registered my domain with them as well. What I liked about the whole registration process is that the forms were really easy to use and once again I took my time. I got a little confused setting up the email accounts, I had to re watch that video twice, however testing everything (our last task) was easy to do.   

So now I am at Week 2. In this weeks task we were taught how to initially set up our website ready to install the blogging platform. We were shown where to download a free to public FTP Client (File Transfer Protocol). File Zilla. I am learning so many of these technical terms now…2 months ago I had no idea what FTP meant! All I knew 2 months ago was how to check my emails and surf the net! Oh and Ebay too! Love ebay but that is another topic! Definitely need to find a dictionary dedicated to the internet wording! It is like another language! 

Getting back to week 2. The next thing we learnt was how to change the files on our website using File Zilla. I had to watch this video twice but got the hang of it eventually. Setting up the blog was not as complicated as I thought it was going to be. John showed us through our control panel step by step how to install a WordPress blog. It was actually fairly easy to do. I can’t emphasise enough how I love the training videos. I love the fact that I can stop and start and do the actions at the same time. 

The next couple of tasks we had to do was setting up the blog platform learning how to create the categories, the links, how to edit the postings and finally how to post and hey presto here I am blogging!!!!!!

Now I need to watch and do week 3, so until then …….. 

Be Good To You & Believe In Your Dreams! 

Jacinta

I am starting to get excited about this whole process. When my blog went live for the first time a couple of days ago I was so excited….I was giggling like a school girl nearly jumping off my chair. I am amazed at how I am able to do this. I know that for a lot of people out there this blogging thing and website development stuff is like second nature but to someone like me this is such a new thing and every time I am achieving something new with it I am celebrating the process. This is awesome!!! 

I have learnt so much over just the last couple of months, however if someone had told me a year ago that I would be doing what I am doing now I would not have believed them. It is amazing what a difference 12 months makes and a little determination! 

Now let’s begin on this whole journey of learning about developing a business on line……. 

I am going to talk about Week 1 of John Thornhill’s Coaching Program. Right on schedule the first week of July we were sent the first weeks ‘tasks to do’. There was a list of videos to watch and a checklist of instructions. Each video described each step of each task that we had to do. The videos were about how to register a domain name, how to register hosting, how to configure the settings, how to set up our email accounts and how to test everything. 

What I am enjoying about the program is that the videos are so easy to understand. John takes his time in each video and shows us exactly how to do each step as he does it. He does each task step by step and very clearly talks you through each step as he shows you on the video. I have been able to download everything and watch it stopping and starting and doing each exercise at the same time. The thing I have noticed is that if I take my time watching each exercise and then repeating the process that I am actually understanding it. I have been having so many ‘Aha’ moments already! 

Well as you can see I successfully completed week 1’s tasks as I am posting this online to you, however this blogging stuff is technically week 2 but I will talk about that in the next post…….so until then …….. 

Be Good To You & Believe In Your Dreams! 

Jacinta