John Thornhill’s Coaching Week 2.
Post number 3!!!!
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