Elizabeth recently gave herself a four year evaluation, and as her near-constant companion, I thought I'd add my thoughts on her progress. When Elizabeth started blogging, she was familiar with the Internet but knew nothing about code, like most beginning bloggers. She used the Blogspot publishing platform to create her blog posts, but I'll let you in on a secret- it took her MONTHS to figure out how to put links in her posts. The day she finally understand how to make an image link to a DIFFERENT LOCATION made her feel like she'd conquered the world. As she continued to improve and moved to a self-hosted blog, Elizabeth also learned how to take better care of her computer. I'm not her first laptop, but I am definitely reaping the benefits of her experience. See, Elizabeth likes to click links. And sometimes those links are for junky sites that take up a ton of space and slow down my overall processing speed. Over the years, those of us who have sat on Elizabeth's lap have had to … [Read more...]