World of WordPress - Personal Web Publishing

Christine, I signed up for the Aug 5th event instead of this one. Can't wait!

Hi Christine, I may be a few minutes late. Will be traveling from another Biznik event in the morning.

Hi Christine! Wow, at the risk of hyperbole, my life has been getting better and better since I first attended your WordPress workshop a few weeks ago.

Granted, I just lived through a heinous move out of my hold place so ANYthing's got to be better after that, haha, but your kindly introduction to WordPress as "something much more than a blog" (since I don't consider myself a writer :) has really sparked something now.

First off, your showing us that the ability to post images as a sort of picture-blog really just got me over my hangups about writing - haha! And since I have this archive of hundreds of scanned drawings and characters moldering away in storage, suddenly you have made them relevant, given them a new home where they can be seen.

In the olden days of yore (1997! haha!) it would have been such a major undertaking to design and code a page for these sketches, and as rough works in progress (while interesting, at least to me :) the level of labor to get them posted was prohibitive. But now, suddenly I see how this can work, how this makes such a smooth pathway for the content to come out of the cobwebs. Thank you for that...otherwise they would've been stuck away for years, like the Ark in the Indiana Jones movie. (And even if the sketches are terrible, at least this gives me an excuse to stare that straight in the face :)

So thanks to you, this idea of copyright registering my hundreds of images prior to publishing them (more cost effective to register with the U.S. Copyright Office as a group of unpublished works for a single fee, rather than registering each and every individual published piece later) and then releasing them on WordPress image blog - releasing a new sketch or more each day - like blowing a dandelion into the wind! :) - seems wonderfully appealing.

Shaking loose some old calcified ideas for sure...now Christine's introduction to WordPress is accidental therapy too in addition to a play space :)

And the best part happened today. I am up for consideration for a project bid with a new client and usually I would email them attachments of my design sketches. Since it's going to a committee and they're traveling from different locations to review this work and their budgets, the idea of posting it into a nice already-prepared WordPress design theme to have the committee view from various locations to make their decisions seemed like a fun little experiment to try this morning.

Guess what: It WORKED. They LOVED the presentation (I credit Christine and WP!). Somehow my drawings on the backs of scrap paper (still getting settled after this move, I tell ya!) went from just that tsuddenyl o a nicely professionally presented WordPress page with notations on the sketches, why certain choices were made with this character or that, and at the end a SlideShare.net PDF file was added on to end of the WordPress posts at the bottom to show them a past project I'd done that demonstrated the quality of finish they can expect later (since they're looking at my rough drawings for the first time and may not know that I actually can finish things professionally too, not just pencil scribbles, haha!) Normally I would have been too shy to attach the other project to an email for fear of looking too ambitious :), but here it is on that page and they can take it or leave it but at least it's available to them.

Basically I'm not here to blab about my work (and I'm sorry that I have in all this enthusiasm - aag!) but I'm here to say that Christine's generously and gently supportive introduction has really started something rumbling for me in the right direction. THANK YOU.

I didn't see this one coming, back when I thought I was just going to make a "blog" like everyone else, and get with it after a few years languishing outside of design :).

Something in the special yet subtle way Christine's presented it is now sparking something exhilarating and this idea that a WordPress page can be a creative play space (private and not publicly viewable even!) or an online scrapbook of pictures and mp3 files and videos and words...something where we can memorialize our interests and passions all in one place.

There is something really special about this multimedia blank canvas that holds promise for so much more, and it took Christine's special wisdom and enthusiasm to get me there.

THANK YOU, Christine! :) Sorry for all the gushing! :) :) :)

That said, this workshop today appears to be full to the gills. Congratulations!!! And if anyone's planning on not making it on short notice (I'm about 15 minutes away), I would be very grateful for a direct email to me at michiko @ michiko.com to let me know, in the hopes that I may be able to join and learn more to the next level. Thank you either way!

Thank you again for the inspiration, and I hope those of you attending today get to enjoy the potential of this too - it's still all so new and exciting and I'd love to see where this can lead for each of us!

Best, Michiko

BimBionic Industries/Design Lab

Project pitch presented to the government agency/client today, proposal for a coloring book for kids about clean air and preventing pollution - just early character designs - enjoy!

P.S. Incidentally with my long-winded emails it's easy to see why I'm still resisting the idea of Twitter and its 140 character maximums. Torture, I tell ya! ;)

Unfortunately, I had to cancel. My son is in town, and this is going to be our day together. Will you offer this one again? I signed up for the session next week, but that sounds like a more advanced session, and I am a beginner. Any suggestions about how to get up to speed before next week?

Thanks!!

Yikes! I just missed this due to another meeting running over this a.m. Hope to catch the next one!

thanks for having this. it was helpful to me.

Thank you so much for offering this workshop. I now feel better about creating my website and being able to interact with clients and potential clients.

This was so informative and I am ready to roll with a new wordpress site as soon as I can some up with a great business name.