Too many irons in the fire

As I face the task of organizing the information for all my websites I recall my trepidation about hooking up to the internet. I suspected it could soak up a lot of time. If I had known just how true that was I may still have been offline.

My biggest headache though is rummaging through my notes to find the usernames, and passwords that go with each site. I finally went out and bought two new notebooks to get this information organized, and to log what I wrote; and where I wrote it. This will help me link them all together. If I've already written about the topic on my mind, it makes more sense to include a link to the original article, than to waste space and time repeating myself.

In the process of doing this I find there is an email address I created, but never used; a couple of websites I forgot about; and no recorded passwords on some. It's so easy to get into this blog site as I only have to click on my Google accounts. I had to hunt down my url for this site once before; I think I stored the info when it was emailed to me--in my favorites--for a time such as this. I have a new blog entry on Freewebs, in which I refer to 'the joy and frustration of blogging' (two articles on this site), to finish it all that has to be done is include the url.

Another reason I want to link my sites is for traffic. Since none of my sites are business sites it's not to generate revenue. Two of my sites are so busy they'll keep me occupied all day, other sites are so dead they need some life pumped into them. This site is one of them. I find myself wondering if I'm that boring, or if different hosted communities have different attitudes about leaving comments. For instance; on my Gallery-Workshop, which is around two and a half years old, I only got one comment; it was from a friend who did me a favor to see if the url was working. I got two here from the same person, because I left a comment on his site. I know the gallery-workshop is not a dead site as it gets hits all the time.

I can see now how this can actually work for me: I don't need anymore cyber-friends, it takes days sometimes to answer the comments from the friends I already have; it's my reason for having so many sites that is important. The Gallery-Workshop is to use my art archive to give free drawing lessons; plus there is clip art, and coloring pictures that can be printed out free. Pictures hog the disc space, and not being able to upgrade there is no room to expand, except to include YouTube videos that demonstrate things I have no room to do myself. That is a God send, as my net activities give me no time to do it all myself anyway.

There is some writing at the Gallery, and a link to my first site, which I can no longer edit; I can't access it. It has my Road to Damascus testimony, the clip art and free Disney character coloring pictures, which is what some people would be going there for. It is surprising how often you can help someone by sending them to another site. The group I belong to on LiveJournal is a drawing crowd. My sites at Google's Blogger are for my writing. I have one more, which is the hog for my attention.

The newest and busiest is on Freewebs: it was started as a place to published the Christian triva crossword puzzles I plan to create. I finally got a free download software program that would help me make them. As it turned out, I got a couple in a file on the site, but couldn't get the interactive one downloaded to the page. I almost gave the site up, but discovered the very active open forums. I like that there are lots of Christians there, with enough opposition that they get to excercise their faith muscles. There are several blog entries that cover this: http://www.freewebs.com/christiancrossword.

I'm abstaining from the forums for awhile to catch up on some neglected things: one of which is to print out some crossword puzzles, now that I have ink in the printer; then scan them into 'My Pictures' and download them as JPEGs. I only hope they come out page size. The activity on the forums is very addictive, so it could be hard to resist for a week; forunately there is a lot to be done, so the time will pass quickly.