WordPress…I Slay the Lion…

I can get myself into tricky situations!  There were times over the last eight days or so where I seriously began to doubt my sanity. I mean, every kid over ten can build their own website – so what was I trying to prove? For my purposes and to tell a good story, M and I have assigned our own hall-of-fame status to five top website platforms out there, and WP became the lion.

 

King of the Beasts

I wasn’t even sure that my poor old PC would survive...but it did and today’s post proves I’m still here. And the men in white coats never even appeared in my neighborhood, so looks like the heat’s off.  Coolest of all is that I built my first website, by myself and I’m waaay over 14…take that, all you junior internet geniuses.

If you’re at all interested, pop on over to MozimaxWeb and have a squiz at the WordPress entries, Parts A and B and then the step-by-step... err... steps, 1 through 6; aka the six steps to build a WordPress website. If I can do it, then anyone can and this is a written guide (with pictures) that I hope will help everyone from babies to baby-boomers build a website…assuming they need and want one.

Chobe River

Technology aside, M and I are busy with our new baby, http://wildmoz.com! The ultimate website for all things African, south of the great rivers (the Limpopo and the Zambezi); with an emphasis on wildlife management, conservation and the genuine African experience.  We’ll be following the experiences of people on the ground who work with dangerous game every day; their passion for the land and the majestic animals that are their work. There’ll be some history – just the really juicy bits, awesome photos, exciting (true) stories, suggested reading and the occasional book review. As a collective, the families featured here have been living and working on this continent for generations and there are many engrossing stories, warm-hearted reflections, thrilling anecdotes, and astute insiders perceptions that we will share.

What http://wildmoz.com. won’t have is politics…Africa has had (and still has) enough comment, criticism and judgement to last an eternity and for some amazing reason the whole world feels free to do this.  Well I’ve got news for you – we live here – along with more than a billion or so other native Africans, (as of November 2009, the total population of Africa was estimated at 1 billion)! And it’s a whole lot more complicated than anyone realizes, so please, leave politics out of it and just enjoy the safari…