Jean Henderson
New member
Hello Everyone,
For openers, my 30 year old son died suddenly on Oct. 14th. I am still working my way into a new normal and have not been able to make any new photos of merit yet. However, during the summers months I was part of a special program that led to an opportunity to apply for a small grant. I got it. Part of it was the funding to develop a new website as I move towards the possibility of becoming an entrepreneur on a part time basis through sales of prints. Yes, I know it must be marketed. That is a whole separate piece.
I used three resources for the tools to create this. GoDaddy.com for domain registration and domain security; Weebly.com Starter Subscription as the web builder (it is drag and drop, not code based); and a Print on Demand site as I do not have the capability nor the resources to handle fulfillment. Those are the pieces.
On Dec. 29th I began the purchase process and quickly moved into the building process. It is rather complete now and I plan to announce it to my world tomorrow. It is far from perfect, but far better than I had dared to hope. As an also relatively brand new smart phone user, I built it all on the computer and then asked a smart phone savvy person who knows how to navigate the mobile sites what they thought of it. I immediately saw things I wanted to fix and came home to do that work.
Anyway, I hope you will be tolerant of the fact that I have not been posting any comments here of late. I began to but then forgot how I had used available resources before in order to post photos that you could all see. At least this on is just a link and it is:
http://www.jeanhendersonart.com/
While I gave myself permission not to become disciplined about creating again until the end of this month, expending the grant funds, especially the preparation of new marketing materials both off and online, has proven to be a good way to transition from total devastation to renewed creativity.
But, mind you, I am not asking for kindness here. Give it to me straight so I can improve it and move closer to my goals.
For openers, my 30 year old son died suddenly on Oct. 14th. I am still working my way into a new normal and have not been able to make any new photos of merit yet. However, during the summers months I was part of a special program that led to an opportunity to apply for a small grant. I got it. Part of it was the funding to develop a new website as I move towards the possibility of becoming an entrepreneur on a part time basis through sales of prints. Yes, I know it must be marketed. That is a whole separate piece.
I used three resources for the tools to create this. GoDaddy.com for domain registration and domain security; Weebly.com Starter Subscription as the web builder (it is drag and drop, not code based); and a Print on Demand site as I do not have the capability nor the resources to handle fulfillment. Those are the pieces.
On Dec. 29th I began the purchase process and quickly moved into the building process. It is rather complete now and I plan to announce it to my world tomorrow. It is far from perfect, but far better than I had dared to hope. As an also relatively brand new smart phone user, I built it all on the computer and then asked a smart phone savvy person who knows how to navigate the mobile sites what they thought of it. I immediately saw things I wanted to fix and came home to do that work.
Anyway, I hope you will be tolerant of the fact that I have not been posting any comments here of late. I began to but then forgot how I had used available resources before in order to post photos that you could all see. At least this on is just a link and it is:
http://www.jeanhendersonart.com/
While I gave myself permission not to become disciplined about creating again until the end of this month, expending the grant funds, especially the preparation of new marketing materials both off and online, has proven to be a good way to transition from total devastation to renewed creativity.
But, mind you, I am not asking for kindness here. Give it to me straight so I can improve it and move closer to my goals.