In my never-ending quest to find new ways to make myself annoying “on-line”, I’ve made many happy discoveries, one of the best (other than this blog) is webs.com. My only prerequisites, no matter what the medium: it must be free and easy. That’s because I’m cheep and lazy. One of my favorite resources, Wikipedia, describes them as follows: “Webs, formerly Freewebs, is a free website hosting service founded in 2001. The service allows users to build and manage their own "professional quality" site. Users can use applications, normal pages, and many other features to enhance the quality of their site. It competes with WebStarts, Yola (formerly Synthasite), Jimdo, Weebly, uCoz, Wix, and other web hosting and creation sites.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webs.com
Somewhere back in 2008, I started thinking; wouldn’t it be great to have my own web site. What for? Hell if I know! Do I need a web site…no. Do I have anything to offer that others might be interested in on a web site…no. Am I egotistical enough to try it anyway? Yes!! After all, to paraphrase Meatloaf, “one out of three ain’t bad”, or something like that.
Now, digressing to my digression, back to 2008. After developing my iGoogle home page somewhere close to it’s present “work of art”, I found something called Google Sites. http://sites.google.com/?hl=en&tab=w3&pli=1 This is where the dream began. Halleluiah! I CAN have a web site! Once again; why? Who cares! But after fooling around with it for a while, I wasn’t coming up with anything that even met my admittedly low standards. Plus, it wasn’t all that easy – the results never quite met my intentions.
I knew about such things as HTML, Java scripts, etc. but as usual, “knowing about” is a whole lot different than having a working knowledge of. Of course, I wasn’t going to let this stop me. Hell no! So I did what every good procrastinator does; shuffled this project to the back burner and let it sit, scorching the bottom of the pot. Obviously though, not to be forgotten.
Zooming back to the present, or at least the early part of 2010. While researching some Native American topics, I discovered a site called “Native Spirits” (http://nativespirits.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network). A beautifully formatted, useful and well managed site created with something called “ning”. (http://www.ning.com/) During my evaluation process, ning became a pay site which automatically put it out of my category plus it was a little too high powered for my needs.
Sometime thereafter, during a session of aimless surfing, I came across webs.com. My eyes lit up at the prospect of another prospect! After a little research and setup process, I rolled up my sleeves and got down to some serious work. In about two weeks of half-assed effort, I had my first incarnation developed somewhat to my own satisfaction. Since then, I’ve been honing and polishing my creation with all the enthusiasm of Victor Frankenstein busy in his lab.
If you’ve bared with me to this point, your probably wondering when I’m going to get to the point. Well, the time has arrived.
As previously stated, I have no use for a personal web site. However, out there somewhere, are people with genuine talent and ability who could use a site to promote their business. webs.com provides a vehicle to accomplish this and, after development, one is not trapped in site management just to keep it afloat. A very good example of this is the following small business site: http://blackhawkkennels.webs.com/
In conclusion, I’ve not written this for the sole purpose of hawking my site: http://doublekseawa.webs.com. My experience has been that this is an easy-to-learn and easy-to-maintain vehicle to promote whatever you wish. I figure if I can can produce something like this with no particular interest in mind, someone else with a legitimate purpose might find it useful.
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