Friday, 4 September 2015

Well cock my bow, I have just added a 'button' to my Facebook 'Paintings' page. A glorious, high-tech, impressive icon, that you click on to get to my Etsy shop. www.facebook.com/julespaintings.

I know you are impressed. Although it took me two days of getting it wrong. Apparently I don't need to learn HTML code (It took me 45 years to learn how to ask for the toilet in French, so I don't have a hope in hell of conquering the language of code now do I!) . So after panicking that I'd really over-estimated my ability.. I stumbled upon the Promote My page button, pressed it and, whatdaya know???? A selling button was born.

Now how the hell do I market my e-shop? Argghghhghgh!

Thursday, 3 September 2015

No1: Never Giving Up.



"Let's start again shall we?"

"What does this button do?"

"Don't press that button."

PRESSES BUTTON

"For the love of God you've gone back to the menu now!!!!"



It is true, you can't teach this dog new tricks. I am old. I have ‘O’ Levels, not ‘GCSEs, I went to a Poly not a Uni, and when I started work the secretaries where the only ones who knew how to use a computer (usually the size of a small car… the computers not the secretaries, they were usually young and perfect).

So how on earth am I supposed to keep up as the ‘Internoodle’, ‘Whatsamacallit’, ‘Facepage’, ‘Pinternet’ and ‘Instathingy’, become as normal a part of everyday life as blinking?

Well I won’t give up! I will understand! And if keeping up gets tough, I have a 7yr old who can help me out. 

For starters... why is this typeface sooooo big??????