37\u00a0 54%\u00a0 37%\u00a0 6mph\u00a0 windroseWSW bar steep rise\u00a0 dewpoint22\u00a0 Waxing Crescent of the Snow Moon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holiseason<\/p>\n
Learning how to use a new program is a little like visiting a foreign country, one where you may understand a bit of the language, but not\u00a0all.\u00a0 The customs and folk ways of the new country are odd, unfamiliar.\u00a0 If you don’t follow them, you might get by ok, but you also might find yourself in a world of trouble.<\/p>\n
The program that drives this site is WordPress.\u00a0 The old website used FrontPage, a Microsoft product.\u00a0 WordPress is an open source, Linux based program which means anyone can fiddle with the code and it uses Linux, the open source operating system.\u00a0 All this may seem like babble to you, but it is as if you landed in Rome and tried to read the street signs based on high school Latin.\u00a0 Sometimes you’ll guess right, sometimes not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Let me give you an example.\u00a0 I liked the first theme with the Hubble horse-head nebula shot, but I found this moody lake and forest scene and liked it better.\u00a0 Bill Schmidt had showed me how to upload themes, so I did that, clicked it into use and went on the site to observe my handiwork.\u00a0 Ooops.\u00a0 I couldn’t figure out how to get to the admin. page.\u00a0 Important because that’s where you write posts and\u00a0manage the overall blog.<\/p>\n
So.\u00a0 I called Bill.\u00a0 He got into the admin. pages by clicking on edit.\u00a0 I could have thought of that, but didn’t.\u00a0 The folkways of this new land had me bamfoozled.\u00a0 Bill is the local who knows the language and knows your language, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
37\u00a0 54%\u00a0 37%\u00a0 6mph\u00a0 windroseWSW bar steep rise\u00a0 dewpoint22\u00a0 Waxing Crescent of the Snow Moon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holiseason Learning how to use a new program is a little like visiting a foreign country, one where you may understand a bit of the language, but not\u00a0all.\u00a0 The customs and folk ways of the new country are odd, unfamiliar.\u00a0 … Continue reading New land, New language<\/span>