My website is one day old now, but it is far from being out of the woods. I was able to learn what FTP is and how to use it. I got to know CSS and KompoZer as well as php and that in order to understand those I will need more time.

Fortunately I have a friend, Alex Trup, who took me under his wing and patiently explained several things to me. Like how I should find a wordpress theme and edit it, or that Disqus is more powerful than the wordpress commenting system.

He also pointed out how important twitter is nowadays and that I should register an account. It made me remeber that I came across twitter on several levels recently: Jon Steward was making jokes about it on “The Daily Show”, I got an invitation from a friend to join twitter and on the professional networking website XING Nicole Simon, a member of the group “Global Business Women”, announced publishing a book about twitter (in German) called “Twitter – Mit 140 Zeichen zum Web 2.0“. This book explains twitter, its history and influence and gives recommendations about how to use it effectively. So now I am on twitter as well. It is to early for me to give a profound opinion about it, but it is exciting.

The major realization which struck me was that it is important to just do it. Start the website although one does not know everything about it yet. Because the Internet is developing so fast, you can try to plan, but will never know if it is outdated by the time you are ready to implement. I do understand the common fear of having a website online that might misrepresent oneself. I did fear this myself: “What will a possible employer think, when he comes across my site?”, “Is my English sufficient enough?” and “Will I be able to come up with enough interesting posts?” In some aspects I still haven’t overcome those fears, but they make me strive for improvement.