Day Zero – Step Zero – Commit to launching blog after having it sit as a stub for a year
Day One – Step One – Nuke old stub of a blog, and redeploy a brand new WordPress.
Day One – Step Two – Change the theme and realize that you have a lot to do, and a lot to strip out before you can really get stated.
Day One – Step Three – Change the theme again and come to the shuddering conclusion that you have bit off way more that you thought.
Day One – Step Four – Set up a under construction sign with a start and end date. (I launch on 1 September 2021, no matter what, it’s launching.)
Day One – Step Five- Write an unapologetic post about launching ugly, publish it, and put it away for the day.
Day Two – Step One – Put together some rough categories and changes yesterday’s post to “Behind the Scenes”
Day Two – Step Two – Start cataloging all the things I need to learn
- Text Formatting
- Section formatting
- Get to and change images
- Create some kind of place holder for a log
- get on Fiver and get a logo
- make sure I’ve got a list of the categories of posts that I like, and that represent the focus of this blog
- Block out time to work on the blog, research and also write a quick behind the scene’s post, most every day.
- Add an email account, and test it.
- Pimp book “Show your work”
- Get amazon affiliate link
- Write my about me page
- Blogify my resume
- Put up a C# TDD algorithms video on youtube and link.
- Pimp my favorite vloggers
- Discuss self-taught vs university
- Add a survey
- Look up the laws that cover allowing comments (surprisingly I can break laws by allowing you to comment here – who knew?)
- Break the above list into “project chunks”
- Schedule time for math study (I’m currently getting my degree after 40 years of (mostly) profitable tech work)
- Insure that family time is included in the calendar blocking.
- Create a publishing calendar
- Decide if you require a separate blog for “The business of self-promotion”
- Publish this brain dump and get ready for tomorrow
Day Two – Step Three – Publish this, and go read to my child.