There are a whole lot of things that I love to do and at which I excell. I'm creative and artistic. I can make just about anything crafty. I'm a good cook. I'm well read and synthesize information easily. I'm a rock star manifestor (you should see me in action in a busy parking lot!) and I can sing really, really loud. It's important that I remind myself of all the things I'm good at BEFORE I face off with my nemesis: technology.
Usually, my little technological adventures begin with an idea that seems fairly simple. This week my idea was, "I want to add a box to my blog pages that lets people subscribe for email updates, because lots of people don't use Google's Blogger service." I knew such a thing existed, because I have seen it on other blog pages. So I explored the Blogger gadget area. Nothing. I performed a Google search. Worse than nothing: an incredibly slowly loading site that confused and frustrated me to no end. There was just nothing intuitive about finding and using this mysterious bit of code. On and on this went for THREE DAYS! Finally, yesterday, I solved the mystery and Voila! There is now a fantastic box in my right hand side bar, courtesy of FeedBurner.
Thank goodness for Karen Drucker, who sang very insistently in my head for the entire three days.
I can do it!
I can do anything!
When I say what I want and I walk my talk
it ALL comes back to me.
I can do it!
I can do anything!
I release, let go, go with the flow.
This is where I'm supposed to be.
For those of you who would like to have an email subscription box on your blog page, allow me to save you some drama... Go to the FeedBurner web site, enter your blog url, click through the start up options by clicking "next" a lot, click "Publicize" tab at the top of the page, click "email subscriptions" on the left, select your language of preference from the scroll down box above the code, select your blogging method from the scroll down box below the code, copy the entire code in the text box and paste it into your web site. I pasted my code into an HTML gadget in my side bar. Ta Da!Labels: blog, code, computer, email, feedburner, frustration, google, HTML, Karen Drucker, Lezli Goodwin, subscription, success, technology
