As I mention in my About page, I have no proper IT training. Everything I’ve learned over the years has been through my own haphazard process of trial-and-error. Many hours have been spent trying to get the html code just right, get the picture in just the right place etc.

However, in the past year, I have had the pleasure of my own personal IT Guy – my partner Nick. The first thing he ended up helping me on was my first WordPress installation. Now, I’ve dealt with ftp before, no big deal – but altering config files and dealing with SQL? Hmm…

Picture the scene – sitting on the bed, me with my laptop, and Nick with a book. I would be at some stage of the process, going fine. Then, I would start to make little annoyed noises, fidget, and finally cave in and say “I can’t get this to work!! What am I doing wrong?..” Nick, being the ever-helpful man that he is, suppressed a sigh, put aside his book, and figured out my problem. This went on for… a while

Eventually, it was all up and running, and he had earned himself mega brownie points.

Mostly, I figure things out myself and bumble along. But it’s nice to know I’ve got My IT Guy there if I ever find myself completely lost…

“Nick… what am I doing wrong…???”