I have been away from blogging too long, and I miss it. But I need try something different. I have been using a client based blog software which keeps me tied down to my desktop computer when I increasingly find myself using two laptops and, now, an iPhone for accessing the web. Therefore my blogging really needs to adapt to my lifestyle because I was not adapting very well to blogging.
I am going to try WordPress for mobile blogging. If I like it enough I may switch to it for all blogging at Everything Else. That might not be wise from a SEO standpoint, but Everything Else and the talmir.info domain are probably never going to be commercial money makes anyway so who cares? I just want a place to blog without a lot of maintenence work.
July 25, 2007 at 8:39 am |
Brad, it’s you! Good to see you. Found your blog through my WordPress dashboard.
If you end up liking WordPress, may I offer my post about how to make WordPress into a more usable, full-fledged website — it’s on the developedtraffic site in the right navbar.
July 25, 2007 at 1:17 pm |
Wow Diane, you found me! Welcome. I’ve been sitting here for the past week dithering as to just chucking the old client based blog and switching to WP.com completely or maintaining two blogs.
I kind of like going the remotely hosted route, because trying to maintain scripts on my own hosting accounts – keeping them updated, secure and spam resistant, has sort of worn me down over the years. Anymore all I want to do is blog.
I just read your post on making WordPress a full-fledged website. This is great stuff. I do not know how much WP.com will let me customize but I will look into this. Heh, I have a list of things to-do on this blog and I really need to get to them. I’m hoping the dirt world won’t interfere too much.
Anyway thanks for the hello and the tips!
July 27, 2007 at 9:31 am |
I see. Actually, you’ve named some of my reasons for *not* wanting to go the remote-hosting route at wordpress.com:
- the site would be in a subdomain of wordpress.com
- I can’t control what wordpress.com does with anything
- Not sure I can install all kinds of stuff, as I wish
- I can’t write automatic database backup scripts
- My marketing is not entirely based on what I do — including, should I want to move the site, redirecting URLs to a new domain
As you say, it’s one choice. But that last point is one I would stick on. If I’m going to spend any amount of time on anything, I want to get the most out of it that I can.
I will say that, since WordPress 1.5 (we’re up to the 2.0.x and 2.x versions now) when the “themes” (aka skins) were devised and placed in a separate folder, upgrading has been a breeze. The last upgrades — there were a number last December — took about 10 minutes each, and most of that was for uploading files.
I have to say that, way back when, Jim Wilson browbeat talked me into getting a virtual private server; it wasn’t easy to learn how to use, but that’s ages ago and we’ve enhanced our hosting scenario since then. The thing is, once you go that route (and there are easier methods now, including WHM/cPanel setups which automate a great deal), it would be very difficult to go back because, while they require a bit more work and understanding, there’s a lot more freedom to do what you want, how you want, and when you want.
Anyway, good to see you again.
July 27, 2007 at 9:33 am |
Aha. That “browbeat” was supposed to have a strikeout on it, but it doesn’t display that. Anyway …
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