It’s been a full week since my last post, but I have a good reason. I feel guilty, like I haven’t called my girlfriend in a week. It’s weird.

Last week I set up my Google Reader (details in an upcoming post – it’s a must have). I was overcome with sensory overload as information poured in from all corners of the InterWeb. Where would I start? One of the multiple Internet Radio sites? One of the myriad promotion and marketing tools? I decided to start with the basics and do something that should have been done years ago – set up my Official Website. This was prompted by an article on Lifehacker.com called “Host Your Domain With Free Apps”. It claimed to show you how to host a website for $10 a year and it did not disappoint. I dove in feet first and gave myself a week to get the whole shebang up and running. I’m happy to report that I finished just under my self imposed deadline.

Actually, I did even better than the article claimed that I could. I found a way to do it absolutely free. It helps that I have experience as a web designer, having worked as a Web Developer for the Federal Reserve Board for three years, but there are tools that allow a complete novice to get a functioning website up and running in a matter of days, absolutely free. It took me longer because I did all of the coding in a text editor and created all of the graphics myself.

Right now my brain is pretty much fried so I will go into the details of how you can get your own web presence up and running for zero dinero in my next post. I’m waiting for the DNS name server change to take effect and then desmondwilliams.net goes live. That should be in about 48 hours. Until then you can see the site at it’s temporary home -

http://desmondwilliams.07x.net.

As Dozer (i think) said in The Matrix – “This is a very exciting time”. The next step is to transfer this blog to it’s new domain – blog.desmondwilliams.net. As usual, I plan to do most of the legwork and then lay out the steps for my faithful readers. Stay tuned…

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