Learning tech stuff

So, I decided to add a newsletter block to my website so people can sign up for a regular newsletter. Great idea! Squarespace offers a lot of help with all aspects of the website, video tutorials and in depth instructions.

But I have discovered my learning style with anything computer related seems to be…..watch 6 videos…read instructions 6 times…follow the promts….wander off course and get hopelessly confused…believe I have it right…..doesn’t work….delete everything I’ve done and start again.

Give me some wire to twist, a structural issue with a sculpture, finding the right glue or figuring out the right materials for a job and I’m all over it.

Give me a technical problem to solve with my sculpture, I’m all over it.

Well, apparently, it’s best practice to have an email attached to my website. Breaking into a cold sweat at the thought of going into ‘Settings’ I worked my way through it….what are MX records? what is my server?…do I really want to complete this action? After some time, feeling sightly dehydrated after so much concentrating and with a sore brain, I successfully created an email and signed up to google workspace.

Which apparently was not what I was supposed to do.

Well, that’s a day of my life I’ll never get back. Feeling confused and discouraged I went off and made something which made me feel happier.

So today is working out much better. I successfully deleted everything I had done and ready to attempt newsletter signup number two. Not today though….I have some procrastination to do first.

Might go and make something.