No, I haven’t dropped off the side of Sonoma Mountain. I’ve been struggling to teach myself WordPress (and by default CSS and HTML since you seem to need a grasp of it to do anything in WordPress.) The occasion is what I thought would be a migration to this, my own named domain. However, the whole process is taking more blood, sweat and tears than I’d imagined.
Especially since I went out and got myself an iPhone in the midst of all this, so there’s another learning curve.
Anyway, I’m sort of between two worlds: trying to keep my blogger-based blog going while migrating to the new domain and platform.
Keep dropping by https://leftcoastcowboys.com to laugh at my efforts. And start laying bets that I’ll never get this up and running before I leave for Beijing. I was hoping to be a blogging fool there, but it may not be in WordPress at this rate.
Happy new domain name to you!
Its cool you are trying to learn new things but I have to say the comment you made about how people who use Blogger are a lower class of bloggers really got me. I mean if someone choses not to read my blog because of the blog host I use that’s pretty silly, my blog is about cooking not technology. I look at blogs for the content.
If its about having a domain name, well I do own my domain name & can switch my Blogger blog over to that without having to lose the ease of using Blogger.
I guess I spend so much time testing recipes & writing things for my blog & don’t want to add hours to that time because I have to learn CSS, etc….
Wait! I never said blogger/blogspot users were a lower class of ‘Net citizen. That was the distinct impression I got at BlogHer. People would look at my badge, see the blogspot.com suffix and say “Oh, you’re on Blogger. Must be new at this.”
And certainly with all the blogging tools out there, the pressure is on to move to a more robust platform and a domain name.
My thoughts on the whole thing? I think it’s being driven by advertisers as I think it’s not as easy for them to get their ads into the Blogger/Blogspot world as it is with more open platforms. Therefore the interests that want to see blogging more monetized are trying to give Blogger/Blogspot people an inferiority complex. But hey, I’m just a newbie too. So what do I know?
Sorry, I worded that poorly. I meant that you said that was the feeling you got at Blogher not that it was how you felt.
I have ads on my Blogspot blog pretty easily though I’m not trying to live off of it either.
I just felt like its the techies being elitist to the non-techies who just want to have a blog….
hey congrats on getting it up! it looks great!
I hope you’re enjoying your time in China, the photos are lovely.
For what it’s worth, I think that everyone should chose the blogging platform that’s right for them and their needs. 🙂
shazia