MinaMaries - Need a Free site

So Far...

...so the idea had surfaced, Marie was on board....

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Had to go make a website now.... had to be free.....

Out of all...I chose Blogger (old BlogSpot)

Now why did you do that?

• Partial to it
• Easy-ish for me to use, non-threatening (I'm a scaredy cat)

Tell me more

• Yeah I will one day... 
• Ok one day is here...telling you more...

Isn't Wordpress THE thing?

• Maybe....tried it...a few times...was part of one of those content mill things I was involved with...didn't suit me.
• Outta my depth

Ok...What next?

• Chose a theme. This one's called 'SOHO'
• Swap out the image on the home page to avoid Copyright issues

This particular image from Pixabay
Thank you very very much to falconp4 (Love you!)

• It took five days of tweaking and testing to get it how I wanted.
• Lots of reading and learning and trial and error
• New lingo and guesses of lingo words to search for things I didn't know the names of
• Looking at the potential of what was available
• Familiarising self with the Blogger platform
• Frantic note taking
• A couple of Rums and swear words

• Graphic work 
• Note taking/ideas for content
• Note taking/ideas for possible direction of MinaMaries xxx
• Hopping over elsewhere to do editing tasks
• Grandkids

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Coding:

• My first foray into CSS for customisation and doddering attempts at long forgotten HTML
• Two days to work out the Contact form thingybobby

Coders - do not laugh.

• Workarounds for things I couldn't work out or was too scared to touch in the template

There's a couple of other things I'd like to do but all cosmetic, can wait till I get brave... if I get brave. Things working fine.

So five long days and nights.
Kinda scary but done.

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So what do you think? 

• I like word games...reckon I might try some more coding one day.
• Time well spent...
• Online 'house' ready...

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...Hey Marie...
Be a love and pick up the wine xxx...