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Vacillate Oscillate Swing

Vacillate Oscillate Swing

by Deanne · Apr 29, 2019

Bumped into a situation recently — or should I say the Universe presented me with the opportunity; — which has me going back and forth, vacillating between knowing what to do, not knowing what to do, and basically being stuck in analysis paralysis.

This indecisive moment is familiar – is it the more largely the territory of introverts?

What happened is I met someone by chance. She’s a lovely person. A creative entrepreneur like moi. And in the course of chatting, I found out her website doesn’t work. … I ostensibly still “do websites”. I put that in quotation marks as, well, back in the day it meant something specific. Now it can mean anything from being a developer banging out a specific piece of code to fix the unruly widget that refuses to cooperate, to a Mad-Men style agency filling in all the blanks – and promising the SEO nirvana that will make your business bloom so splendidly it will outshine the sun.

I’m mixing metaphors, but they do that too when they talk Marketspeak.

Her issue is something that as soon as she mentioned, my brain was immediately leaping into action and trying to solve. And sure enough, I did solve it (partially) .

My quandry is this. Do I just email the gal and give her the information “for free” (I didn’t disclose I was anywhere near the tech field – call it introversion, call it caution); do I “pitch” my services at a modest fee (through our convo I found out how much she paid for her original site (hint, not very much); or do I write a blog article outlining the steps to solve her issue. They involve a degree of technical knowledge and patience, and familiarity with certain tools.

It made me realize, I’m still struggling with pricing. WTF? And although one year (was it 2016?) I chose VALUE as my word of the year, it hasn’t hooked deeply into my soul or geek brain yet.

And now I’ve spent 25 minutes typing out this stream of consciousness all because I’m afraid to ask for what I’m worth. Or is it afraid to hear a NO?

Vacillation, oscillation. Swinging back and forth until the pendulum stops and a clear path is shown.

Filed Under: Techieness Tagged With: decision, indecision, introversion, pricing

My First Block

My First Block

by Deanne · Mar 13, 2019

This is one of those nonsense, test posts. Since upgrading to Gutenberg, it’s time to check out those pesky blocks in a safe environment. So far, I’m not thrilled with the way it handles HTML. Other than that, it seems, on the surface, much easier for clients (aka non techies) to update content and “design” it. Generally a good thing.

Ceci n’est pas un bloc. Ceci est un bloc.

Ceci est une table.12
La table est bleu.34

Cover Block

Filed Under: Techieness Tagged With: nothing, nothingness, tech support

Green

Green

by Deanne · Feb 5, 2016

This is a square format image. Which was accidental. Sometimes the chubby thumbs slip on the iPh screen and you don’t notice and then you have the square not the 16/9 ratio. But upon closer inspection the square fits the the circle within.

 

green

Filed Under: Techieness Tagged With: green, happy accidents, squareness, stillness

Still

Still

by Deanne · Feb 5, 2016

foret

 

This image is being used in both the post and as the featured image to see how the SideBar Pro theme handles it by default.
The title is to reflect upon how things change and still remain the same. Like the forest. Deep huh?

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Another another

Another another

by Deanne · Mar 29, 2011

not so special post using featured tag instead of category

 

This is the top of the table from Quebec.

The previous few posts are being deleted, as they are truly nothing.

Filed Under: Techieness Tagged With: featured

special so special

special so special

by Deanne · Mar 29, 2011

Featured post tests.

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Spring Cleaning

by Deanne · May 1, 2009

To do:

  • Upgrade to 2.71
  • Figure out why categories, widgets disappeared
  • Worry that site was spammed and widgets gone as result
  • Get profile pic for Twitter
  • Add custom theme, or at least change default colour for Twitter
  • Customize this theme.
  • TGIF!

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