Showing posts with label new design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new design. Show all posts

30 June, 2010

The... Farewell To Blogger

With the migration to my own site almost complete, there is little point still coming to this version of the site. I will keep it here for posterity, so that people who may have always used the blogspot address can be guided to the new version of the site.

It will be odd not coming here to add content, but I suppose it was a necessary step as Blogger is quite limited. I am now working on making the new version of the site exactly how I want it, and so far, it is pretty much doing so.

It is also so much easier to write new posts, without fucking around with the layout and so forth for almost every post. And adding videos is infinitely easier, so I hope I can do a bit more content like that.

In all, goodbye to Blogger... and onwards with Wordpress.

15 June, 2010

The... Downtime

In the next few days, if the site has some downtime, then I can say that it is because I am finally moving the blog to my own hosting. I've had hosting for other sites for a number of years, and I simply made this blog on Blogger because I couldn't be bothered screwing around with any in-depth CMS like Wordpress.

The last time I had used Wordpress, I got the shits with it quickly because my site never looked the way I wanted it to, the massive amounts of spam were such a hassle and because I kind of just didn't like it at the time. It seems a lot more robust and there are ways to combat the spam now, so I thought it was time to make the move.

I'm currently working on a bit of a redesign, or more realistic... a design, since this is mostly just one of the basic Blogger templates that I hacked about a bit. So once that is done, the site will be fully switched over to Wordpress and everything will be sweet.

At the moment, I don't want my domain registration to change to my hosting service, and the thing that is confusing me is how I am going to be doing this. I have my domain hosted at GoDaddy, but the site hosting is at Dreamhost... so what do I do to make that work?

Everything about the site will be the same hopefully, but a few things might change, with some things going and some new things coming... so be patient with it please.