My new website and blog.

Exploring
Exploring

Introducing my website and blog experience to you…. Of course, it is a new experience to explore and learn about. While I have acquired more knowledge doing it, I will still continue to better it. This means that my website could change its appearance overtime as I learn and discover new things and how to do them better.

Creation of the website

When you are building a website, you go through a learning process. Technologically speaking, a lot is involved in creating a website behind the scenes. The more you know, the more you can make your site look better. There are a lot of things to learn. Unfortunately, there are also problems that can arise.  Additionally, you need to be careful when combining different elements to avoid conflicts. Further along, you can suddenly find your site not working for x reasons. Perhaps you will need to resolve plugin conflicts.

Blog creation and SEO help

After the creation of the website, blog writing is also a new experience. So, I reserve the right to improve on a blog article, too. And as the blog is public, you want to take even more care as to how it is written and presented. I have improved SEO (search engine optimization) with a plugin called YOAST. This plugin guides and gives SEO advice through analysis in writing the content, and improving the readability. I can’t imagine the work that their team has put into creating this plugin and their constant improvement of it. 

Some of my first blog articles

My first published blog article introduces Vincennes. After that, I will write about different aspects of Vincennes and the surrounding area. Thus, I hope they will interest you enough to make you want to visit. And you will see the area through different eyes. I will also write about other interesting things besides travel.

What about the name of the site: Ariadne’s Golden Thread?

Theseus fighting the Minotaur
Theseus fighting the Minotaur

Ariadne’s golden thread that Theseus used to find his way out of the labyrinth killing the minotaur symbolizes discovery in every sense. It seems appropriate for a blog about discovering new things. This approach leads to a new and different vision of  a place you visit. Travel is one of the ways to discover new things as Marco Polo did during his long journey to China and back.  Each thing we discover makes us different forever. We can no longer have the same view we had before. 

Ariadne’s Golden Thread©2023

By Stephanie

I have been active in ESL(English as a Second Language) teaching and coaching for quite a number of years, for children and adults of all ages. I am fluent in French, German and Modern Greek. I have always been interested in the learning of language. I have also worked in translation and interpretation, copy-editing, and writing. I have been working on the art of copywriting with AWAI. I decided to expand my writing activity by creating and writing a blog, starting with travel and discovery. My first theme will be about Vincennes, France where I have lived a number of years.

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