Well actually this is my third or fourth web page.  I did two as classwork in college and one for fun which focuses on our retirement home in Baja.  So this article would more accurately titled ‘publishing my first web page for the purpose of making money.’  It has taken me about three weeks to get to this point.  I purchased the domain name and a hosting package from Namecheap on the first week but I found there instructions difficult to follow and web design assistance minimal.  Somewhere in my second week into this pursuit I signed up for the Wealthy Affiliate University site was please to find that my monthly membership fee included not only web page design templates, tools and tutorials but also web hosting with step by step instructions for uploading my site!

This stuff is addicting.  It has been years since the internet was so compelling.  I remember when I first got online I would start to read my email and get lost surfing the web for several hours, unaware of the time passing.  The novelty eventually wore off and real life responsibilities usurped my surfing expeditions.  However, since I started doing research on how to build an online business, the same thing happening all over again.  I start out reading the text of the first or second program I bought but a link will take me out to a live sight and then I am off, following the trail of other people’s ideas, articles, pages, products.  Hours later, glassy eyed and disparate to run to the other room, I pull myself away from the screen and collapse.  Still no article published or product linked to my name.