Age - How old are you?
49
How long have you had your site?
9 months
How many pets do you have?
7
What type of pets do you have and what are their names?
Mac-CaliforniaValleyQuail,Baby-Cockatile,Happy-Cockatiel,Stetson-Cockatiel,Sunny-Cockatiel,Sweet Pete-Cockatiel and Greenie-GreenSinging Finch
Hobbies - What do you like to do, besides keep this site?
Pets hobbies - What do your pets like to do?
I built a ladder and posts and hung beads and leather for the birds to play on-Mac-Happy,Baby and Stetson are free-I take the tops of the cockatiels cages except at night they have to go to bed-otherwise when I get up Happy has jumped down to floor and proceeded to chew on my speaker wires.
Location - Where are you from? Where are you now?
I was born in Seattle,Wash.Growing up in Bothell, Wash. I am now in Bridger,Montana.
Why did you start writing your Web site?
I started my first webpage about a year ago. We had a bear come to town and I put the picture at the top.
WHY do you write a site about your pets?
I guess because since my husband died last year-at the time only had Mac and Greenie and Skinny-whos gone- they are my life and family.
What kinds of things do you discuss about you pets on your site?
Do you and/or others in your family communicate with readers of your site? yes
How much email feedback to you recieve from your site? Is it mainly positive or negative?
Quite a bit being in the SiteFights people look at my pages quite often.Positive-everyone thinks hes cute.
Have you met any new friends because of the site?
MANY
Has your motivation changed over time?
Yes-First I had the Mac site-then added the MACS SITEFIGHTS pages-and recently adding the Srnity2 site with bereavement pages, memorial to my husband and links for others to help, NativeAmerican apology and poems I wrote and each time the pages get better.I would like to next learn graphics and make all my own.
Do your friends and family know you keep this site/read it? If so have you had any really negative experiences as a result? If not why?
NO negative experience but mainly the new friends go it-my personal friends very seldon go and everytime i DO A NEW PAGE AND SEND IT OUT TO EVERYONE-MAYBE 1 PERSON WILL WRITE BACK NICE JOB??
HOW has your Web site benefited you? Your friends? Or total strangers?
My site has benefited me-keeping me busy-learning the html ect. and total strangers-
If you had to do it over again from the beginning, what would you change?
Nothing
What are your favorite things on your site?
Pics of the birds but also the links to other great pages.
What do you look for in an pet Web site, as a viewer?
The pictures
What is "one word" that would describe your site?
cute or interesting?????
How do you tackle the mechanics of Web design and how do you deal with your frustrations when you can't do what you envision.
I use the Homestead editor which is fairly simple and I figure out how to do what I envision-EXCEPT I can not figure out how to put a drop down menu on instead of the button
links-I will keep trying to figure it out and if can't then will find another site like Homestead which does have it and then transfer my pages.
Why do you think people are interested in your pets and what they do?
Birds are not well known-if i had cats or dogs or horses then certain people
would go to see them-with birds more people say hmm I didn't know that about
birds.