My new site! How I did it!

As I introduce my new FunnyEvan.com, this was a three month project that actually started by happenstance. I had been pretty good about putting Reverbnation widgets on my site to hide the fact that I knew no code for writing a web site. I mean, I was using Microsoft Frontpage which was discontinued years ago.

I then got a fortunate email from Michael Duff at Duffweb. Thanks to the suggestion of his wife, amazing person/photographer Denice Duff, he mentioned how google would basically be bitchslapping any website that was not mobile friendly. I was on the chopping block and had to adjust.

Unfortunately I couldn’t pay for a pro to design my site, but I started making sketches of what I wanted, browsed website themes. I went back and forth between wordpress.com and wordpress.org. Figured how much fancy themes would be to buy. And then I discovered Tyler Moore. This Youtube computer guy can show you how to design a website from scratch for very little money. I designed a full site going step for step off his Tesseract theme, but it did not resonate with me. However, then I saw his Revolutionary video and I knew I hit it. Social media icons, a home page slideshow and easy ways to embed video. He even taught me how to design my own logo (a work in progress, but better). I basically turned a website meant for a company to be meant for a comedian.

I hired a personal IT guy to move some files around and do some other miscellaneous behind-the-scenes housekeeping, but basically every night in May I was working on one of my pages. More to come including some fun photos and an online store. Time to watch that video!

Dorkily yours,

Evan

 

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