Open Source Website

I am looking at CMS and open source websites so that I will be able to edit the content.  Now I just have to figure out how to actually put the thing together.  I have the banners all separated.  I thought I would download it and I would just have to edit the text, which apparently is not correct.  It is hard to weigh the opportunities that the site will actually provide, but a site that I can change is definitely the right choice.

Balancing Act

I had family in town this week and had a few meetings on Thursday and Friday.  I am back in the office and trying to get caught up.  Realizing that when I am out of the office nothing happens,  so trying to stay focused and get through the work.  Excited about opportunities but just trying to keep my head above water at the moment.  It is hard to learn to balance work with everything else going on when I make up my own schedule.  

How to Build a Website

I remember putting a personal website together in high school for a project.  It was fast and easy, and now I have no way of finding it.  I have taking e-commerce and other courses to teach me how to best assemble a website.  Now that I need to make one for business.  I cannot figure out how to put one together.  I have hosted my site with g0-daddy, which may have been a good choice, but lately I think it has been bad.  I have had slow service with my email address so I am not too sure about the website.  I have looked up templates, but cannot find one that I like, and they seem like they are generic.  I have now gone to craigslist and creativehotlist.com to find a designer.  I am awaiting their responses and trying to get the material together this week.  I will keep you posted.

Who's Running this Thing?

So here it is...the start, the start of climbing out of the gap.  I fell into the gap about six years ago.  It started when I decided to attend school for entrepreneurship.  I thought school and professors would fill my head with ideas and leave me with a business to start.  It didn't.  I have learned that no school or educational program will create an entrepreneur.  I left school and found myself in a cubicle.  About as far away from a business owner as I could imagine at the time.  I have since started a company and have learned about the gap between business and education.  It is a gap between resources and ideas.  Business owners need solutions that work today, and provide security for the changing landscape.  I guess my education left me with a big picture, but I am stuck on the small things with my business.  I hope my small things become the big picture.  I wanted to create a space for business owner's to talk about ideas and find solutions.  For one, I thought creating a managing a website would come as easily as playing Oregon Trail.  I have since found out it is hard to distinguish a good web host from bad, and that is just the beginning.  I hope to create a space that allows open communication and real solutions for business owners.