I feel really confident about my ability to get through the first few steps (setting up website, diverting people from making bad website name decisions, etc.) of a consultation when setting up a website. I am also pretty good at giving examples of what people do on their websites.
The most difficult part of the consultation was honestly the WiFi being as bad as it was… I had to make so many jokes about how bad the WiFi or come up with things to fill up the time while waiting for things to load. Who knew small talk was difficult?! (me, but still) I also had trouble when the theme that I recommended did not work like it usually does and I was very confused because I had never seen it do that before.
I started with introducing myself and asking about the assignment so that I had at least a small idea of what May Day needed on their assignment. Then, as we worked through setting up the subdomain itself, I tried to tailor my own advice and questions toward the kind of website May Day said they needed.
I’m pretty good at explaining more complicated concepts in simple terms! Specifically making comparisons and metaphors for what a function does in order to explain it without having to rely too much on jargon.
I would really like to work on how nervous I get. I said “um” approximately 57 times.