Made My Own Brand New KidSpeak Website This Weekend

This isn’t a speech-related post… but I had a very exciting plot twist this weekend: I built my own website. Yup. Me. No designer on speed dial. No “tech guy named Brad in another time zone.” Just me, my laptop, and a wildly ambitious cup of tea.

Now, I’ve made plenty of websites for organizations over the years—PTAs, nonprofits, committees that definitely should’ve been emails—but oddly enough, I never built one for myself. I always handed that job off to someone else because, frankly, I’ve been in a years-long toxic relationship with WordPress. Every time a plugin updated, something exploded. A photo vanished, a layout broke, font sizes went rogue… next thing you know, I’m on the phone with a computer wizard who lives 12 hours ahead of me trying to decode why the “simple update” turned my site into abstract art.

But this weekend? I officially retired from that chaos.

I put on my imaginary “cool tech person” glasses, cracked my knuckles like someone who definitely knows code (I do not), and dove in. And you know what? It was… kinda fun. Like IKEA furniture fun. A tiny bit confusing, a little chaotic, and yet wildly satisfying when things actually line up the way they’re supposed to.

There’s still tweaking to do—because who ever finishes a website?—but honestly, I’m pretty darn proud of myself. It feels clean, colorful, functional, and very me.

So what do you think? Am I a newly-minted website wizard? A digital DIY queen? A semi-competent tech gremlin with good intentions?

Either way, I’m calling it a win.

Happy Monday, friends—and may your week be full of fewer glitches and more “oh wow, I DID that!” moments.