Technology....blog signatures and banners, oh my!

So today was quite a frustrating computer day for me! There were a couple things I've wanted to get done for at least a week (or more now):

1.) Put up a banner in my Etsy shop.
2.) Make a signature for the blog.

Two things which have MANY blog posts and websites with directions on how to do. Which you'd think would make the processes easy-peasy. Well I don't think I'm a computer idiot [no expert by any means either] but after trying to accomplish these two things today I sure felt like one!

And not to mention in the midst of these projects today, while taking a break to feed the chiklits lunch, I came back to my laptop to find it frozen! My ONE YEAR OLD laptop! FROZEN!!! And yes (as DH asked me immediately) I had rebooted literally the other night! So after doing a force quit I turned the computer back on to get a black screen - NOTHING!! NADA!! I've never been in a situation where I was on the midst of crying over a computer (ok well once when I lost an entire term paper in college b/c I forgot "the rule" - save frequently and often). But thank God Dave, after 20 min. on the phone with computer support and $60 later my computer was up and purring! The problem: Static friction - yet another reason to hate winter! So if you ever have this problem call Dave - he'll only charge you $30!

But I'm happy to report I FINALLY [literally 2 min. ago] finished the last of my two tasks! Thanks to this wonderful website I now have a blog signature. Not sure why I didn't fall upon this website this afternoon. Fell upon about 50 others that were useless and uber frustrating to me but...at least I can sleep happy now!
And I made my lovely signature using this fun site.

And after weeding through another handful of sites and playing around wasting my time on Photoshop and some other free photo editing sites I fell upon a website that recommended this site. AWESOME!! Made it as easy-peasy as it should have! Not sure if I'm totally happy with what I came up with for my banner background so I may play around with that later. But for now I'm just happy to have a banner since they say that is the first thing you should do when setting up your online shop.

Although I've gotten quite a few sales from people I don't know before putting up a banner. But hopefully this will help make my shop seem more legit and I'll get more hits/sales. Maybe there is some truth in "needing" a banner because today I got 130 hits, 2 new shop favorites, and 8 item likes! Which is the most I've ever gotten in a single day. Yippee!!

Enough of this computer crap....off to spend some QT with my sewing machine!