Hi, my name is Jeff Porter and I run this website.
I came into computers, not at school, but as an adult. I didn’t “grow up” with them. Instead I struggled with them. I couldn’t understand the terminology (the jargon), I didn’t know anything about how these machines operated or how the software worked.
When dial-up Internet arrived (anyone remember dial-up?) I sat with my computer for very nearly a week, trying to get it to connect and the machine steadfastly refusing.
Until one dreary Thursday evening in the middle of winter and suddenly I’m connected. Slowly but surely the Freeserve website comes into view on my screen.
From that point on I became fascinated by computers and the Internet. Not sure why, but I am.
At Home Computer Guides.
In 2010 I started my own computer repair business. A small, local repair shop for Windows computers.
At Home Computer Guides was borne out of the questions posed by my customers. “How do I do this?”, “How can I make that”? etc.
At first I’d answer the questions, maybe showing the customer how to do it on their own machine.
We’d scribble down simple notes so that they’d remember when they got home. Where to click, what to type etc.
The kind of notes that we all make from time to time.
And that’s pretty much where the idea for At Home Computer guides came from.
With a website, I could write walkthrough guides.
Straightforward tutorials written in plain language with images and descriptions.
Over time the guides have broadened out from just the basics to far more complex tasks.
At Home Computer Course.
At the end of the day, everyone has to start somewhere. If you don’t have any idea of how to do the simple things, then actually getting anything done at all becomes impossible.
So by grouping the basic guides together I formed a simple starter course for computer beginners.
If you follow the course, you’ll find that each guide builds on the previous one and leads to the next one. More of a logical progression rather than randomly jumping from one question to the next.