Written by Susan Lane

ColourMine and Squarespace – my first blog

In the early days of building ColourMine, I dove headfirst into the world of Squarespace with absolutely no idea what I was doing. What followed was a tangled mess of templates, tech tantrums, and poetic facepalms. This is the story of how I wrangled my blog into existence – with a little help, a lot of tea, and more stubbornness than sense.

Well, that was a sure mistake for me 
I had absolutely now idea 
What I was doing you see 
I’d never even seen one in action 
No siree 

And when I went to watch 
The video on Squarespace 
It wouldn’t even play for me 
So, not having a clue 
About what or how to do 
I didn’t understand you see 
That Squarespace had 
A designated blog page 
You just had to let it breathe 

But as I said I didn’t know how 
To work out this plug and play 
And I couldn’t find 
How to change the front picture 
To one of mine 
So, because that template was 
Extremely confusing and not for me 

I decided to skirt it and do a work around 
Because I couldn’t find any instructions 
There was no video as a guide 
It wouldn’t play, it just decided to run and hide 
I had no idea that there were loads out there 
That YouTube could have been a hero to me 

ColourMine and Google Search Console

And could have made this 
Building of a Squarespace blog page 
Such a fabulous breeze 
I decided to use a blank page 
That I could work with 
It was so easy you see 
But I didn’t realise that for 
Google Search Console 
That wasn’t recognised as a blog 

Like a damned flippin’ angry dog 
I had this huge facepalm moment 
That I couldn’t believe 
Whether or not I liked it 
I had to use that blasted blog template 
Oh, how angry that made me 

Having to play with something 
I couldn’t understand you see 
Well, I went to the internet for help 
I asked Copilot it there was a way 
To do what I needed to do 
And fabulously I had it told to me 
In idiot mode, because that’s 
What I asked for due to me 

Being quite thick on this subject 
And I needed it to be slowly explained 
So, I could build it gradually, including 
Changing that front photo, whoopee 
I know it made it easier for me 
And learning about this Tetris way 
Of building should get easier for me 

And yes, it did make it easy to get 
The blog to play but it also made life 
A bit too interesting on the time front hehe 
It all meant I had more to do 
To copy and paste from my originals 
Then delete the first blog pages, phew

Blog – Disaster to Success

With all that done, I’ve got admit 
It was so much easier for me 
To construct each blog 
And I got to know the more intricate things too 
Well, all that done with this exciting 
Plug and play, I should have been happy 
With everything progressing 
But no, not anywhere near 

Because now matter what I tried to do 
I couldn’t find ColourMine when I 
Went on any search engine 
And looked for any of my poems or blogs 
That was another strike 
Against Squarespace for me 
Surely with this platform live 
I should have been able to find 
At least one of mine 

I decided to crack on with 
Google Search Console but also 
PageSpeed Insights to see 
If there was anything bad 
That I was doing that would make 
ColourMine invisible you see 

Well, the only thing that I could find 
Was the loading speed so I investigated 
And found that it wasn’t due to anything 
ColourMine or me
So, more investigation underway, 
And more tea, hehe

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