About Joan

Joan has been using the WordPress Content Management System software for 17 years and the Divi Theme for 10 years.

She combines her artistic skill with technology to create unique one of a kind websites. She also offers website maintenance and tuition.

I started classical ballet at aged five and fulfilled my dream and danced professionally for six years. The time came, as it does for all dancers to put away the ballet shoes.

In 1990 when the personal PC came out I fell in love with technology and the Internet. As a child I would dream about a ‘technical place’ where people could access and exchange information. In the dream it was an electronic library, this is the Internet.

I learned to use WordPress and operate a WordPress Theme. All was well until I needed to upgrade WordPress and wanted to change Themes. 

The Hosting Company servers did not have sufficient memory, and I had to change Themes each year to continue receiving tech support. 

I had to find a new Hosting Company as well as a Theme. 

In 2013, Elegant Themes the makers of the WordPress theme I was using, produced a new Theme, the Divi Theme. This theme is a non-tech user’s dream come true.

I was used to working from a premade template and filling in the spaces. But this Theme was different. I could change the page layout, style the content, and create an entirely unique website, without having to know how to code.

I have been through the frustration of first time learning without adequate documentation. Made the mistakes, wasted the money, deleted and started over.

This website contains the foundational informaton about how to start building a website with WordPress using the Divi Theme.

The World Wide Web started out as a simple system of links. Today it is a complex integration. A network of servers, connected through hypertext markup language (HTML code) in a system of links.

I started RealTime Paradigm, Consulting & Design in real time to help people build websites the way they should be built. Flexible. Functional. Affordable.