Villa Catarina

Hi ellupelluellu  I'm really glad you've posted a link to Villa Catarina here 💖
I don't know the story yet but have read the first 4-5 chapters.

Regarding your thoughts on whether you should create your own blog or home page, many of us have experience with the free options.
I love WordPress myself, as there are lots of helpful tutorials on YouTube and several free templates to start from.
I know many others use Blogger. I think both are very suitable for stories as updates are in a logical chronological order.
Tumblr is another option, but my experience with Tumblr is that chapters are often in reverse chronological order, which means you have to read a story backwards.
Let me just think where we could find a suitable place to share advice and experiences on this subject.

ellupelluellu  It is interesting that you write that you are a non English speaking person, because the way you build your story is quite similar to my stories. Lots of pictures with a short in-depth text. I am also not the English language.

Am I completely wrong when I remember you participated in Karababy's One Month, one world, one year challenge?
I therefore thought you were quite an experienced story teller.
I have to admit that I gave up on following the many intertwined stories, even though I thought that the idea of ​​so many different narrators writing from the same starting point at once was really exciting.

Yeah let's not mention the EA forum again. You have probably already discovered that it can inflame me with anger. Neither you nor I need to spend more time on that. 🙄
I have also noticed quite small images on Blogger. I myself am very happy with WordPress.
I don't have any smart IT savvy friends or family members and I still managed to set up a website quite easily.
Of course I had a lot of doubts about setup and security, but again I will say on YouTube you can find answers to almost everything. (I also found several tutorials in my native language)
There are many free templates that already have some form of setup. You do your setup in a pending level until you are ready to publish. I was there for several weeks until I felt ready to go on the air.

SnuffyBucket is also a WordPress user. As I recall, GlacierSnow writes on Weebly. (Otherwise she has to correct you.)
I think you can get a lot of help from other story writhers because our combined experiences range widely.

Opps! GlacierSnow I'm Mona 😅

ellupelluellu One thing I would like to add about WordPress is that it is easy to follow favorite WordPress websites with a Follow button and WordPress Reader.

I have to admit I haven't read yet this story either, I'll have to add it to my endless to-read list

Anyway, ellupelluellu , I'm here because I have a blog on blogger and I can talk a bit about that. I'm actually currently playing a bit with a second test blog where to try different templates and graphic solutions, among other things I tested the possible pictures dimensions. You can actually make quite large pictures, it's just a bit tricky to make very very large ones. If you want you can give a look to my test post with different pictures dimensions here. For some real ongoing blogs instead you can check my blog, evilbnuuy's one here, or kelloggjkellogg's here.

I also tested a bit wordpress, I find it stronger on the "social side" (i.e. allowing to easily follow and comment each other's blogs and stories), and the free version is quite limited but it actually allows for similar things as blogger (apart from the files/images storage part and the fact that the free plan can have unwanted ads). I could consider moving there for my next story, we'll see what I'll feel like doing when the time will come.

Well, thank you for all advises

MonaSolstraale , yes I was in that challenge by Karababy52. It was fun challenge, but too much in the end, as it included playing every day. Of course I did not literally played daily, but updates should of been done more often I end up doing. Do not get me wrong, I loved the challenge, but it became too much and barely had time to do anything else at all.

I will consider about wordpress too, when I am at that point Also yes that weebly, I have asked GlacierSnow if they can help if needed

HermioneSims , I have read your blog before , just I have to admit I had no idea it is in blogger. Shows how much I know about these things Well, never too old to learn



About Villa Catarina, I'll be adding it with pretty fast pace, 3 chapters at time, it never was very long anyway

MonaSolstraale , thank you, very sweet of you to say

Aww, thank you I am now getting to more longer and complex chapters, why only posting 2 at the time. Copying everything takes longer than I thought