Monthly Progress Report 2 -- 2/28/08

Monthly Progress Report 2 — 2/28/08

4 Mar, 2008 Our Progress

On February 28, SAN.com celebrated its 2-month anniversary. I know that the post date says March 4^th, but hey, so we’re a little late. It’s been a busy week for us here, with many things requiring our attention outside of SAN headquarters.

The biggest thing that I can say at this point is that Kevin and I are learning…A LOT…about blogging. Coming into this endeavor, I have to admit we were very naïve about a lot of things. We kind of thought that we would just write stuff and people would just read it.

We. Were. Wrong.

It makes sense, and I can’t believe we were really that stupid coming into this. I mean, why would people want to read our stuff? Who are we? We don’t even know what we’re doing.

So that’s mainly what this Progress Report is all about. At this point, we’re pretty much past developing the look of the site and changing things visually. Now it’s all about getting people to read whatever it is that we’re blathering about. We have been seeing an increase in traffic, well above the one visitor that we had in our last Progress Report, so I think we’re on the right track. But, it’s still way below where we would like to be. So, tell your friends about us!

However, I did want to mention one thing sort of related to the look of the site. We have (finally) figured out how to add pages to our site, which also helped me figure out that I am not very smart…at all. In fact, if I had another brain, it would be lonely. Adding pages is probably one of the easiest things you can do with WordPress, yet my room-temperature IQ had me perplexed for 2 months trying to figure out how to do it. The big secret is, you go to “Write,” click on “Write Page,” then you write what you want on the page and click “Publish.” That’s what I spent 2 months trying to figure out. So, this is proof positive that if I can be successful blogging, ANYONE can. Wow…embarrassed.

Anyway, we added a Sitemap and a Contact page. So, you can view our Sitemap or contact us whenever you would like. We’re pretty proud of those. We’d like to give a big shout out to Oliver Seidel at deliciousdays.com for his Contact Form Plugin, which you can download here, and also to Dagon Design for his Sitemap Generator that you can download here. Both plugins work great, and they’re very easy to download and implement onto your site.