I built my first website back in 1996 using nothing more than Notepad and a couple of HTML tutorials.
By 1998 I was heavily involved in affiliate marketing and I was becoming interested in e-Commerce. In 2003 I moved to Queensland with my partner and started my own web design business in Hervey Bay.
Since then I’ve built a lot of websites for clients in all types of business. I’ve also built a lot of online shops for everything from large fishing tackles businesses that sell tens of thousands of dollars of products across the world to small localised businesses that sell disposable nappies.
My partner and I have also run our own online shops and that experience has given me a rare insight into what shopping cart software is the easiest to use and offers the most features.
In the early days I used shopping cart programs such as osCommerce and ZenCart because they offered more than WooCommerce did but in the last few years WooCommerce has become my shopping cart of choice.
Last year I was approached by a trainer here in Queensland to write WordPress and WooCommerce training manuals for several State Government sponsored courses that are being run for indigenous groups in north Queensland.
Writing those manuals has given me even more insight into WooCommerce and the things that you can do with it and, now, I can’t see any other shopping cart that comes close to what WooCommerce offers … even in its basic form.
And it has been an ongoing project that has now grown into something much bigger as I develop more online training courses for that trainer as well as developing my own online training for people who want to get the most out of WooCommerce and all that it has to offer.
I also spend time solving other peoples’ problems with WordPress, WooCommerce and social media because I love a challenge. So if you have a problem with WordPress or WooCommerce let’s talk.
In my spare time I’m a wife, mother and stepmother to 10 and grandmother to more kids than I can count on my fingers and toes.
And you can blame my partner for my nickname. He introduced me to one his daughters as the “crazy lady” and the name stuck.