I Bought 3 New Houses (Or Am I Renting?)

April 30, 2008 on 1:52 pm | In wordpress |


Either way it sure feels like I just moved into 3 different locations.

I’m talking about the re-design of all 3 of my blogs, Celebrity News, Funny Offbeat News and this one. (Funny Offbeat News is currently in Blogger jail. So, I am transitioning it to a WP blog, it’s almost complete.)

Working with Blogger is simple, and for all intensive purposes, it’s how I cut my teeth blogging. The simplicity spoiled me, and did nothing to prepare me for my new task - WordPress.

For me, WP is like Geometry, I hated it, suffered through it for an entire school year. Geometry was the most painful class I had in my life! I couldn’t figure out why I needed to understand the spatial relationships of lines. Hey, I’m a writer, the typewriter/computer does most of my interpreting.

Maybe if I had of excelled in Geometry, WP would be a breeze? Naw.

WP, I didn’t know is CSS based, and Blogger is HTML based, kind of like the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. It’s a huge significance. One that made me blind last night and I had to go to bed with dreams of CSS Code.

I did purchase a domain name though, through Yahoo, it’s pretty cool because I’m comfortable using their site building tools. Choosing a known path felt like cheating, but what the hey, it’s my money. My grandfather always said, “go where you know.”

So, today I’ll resume EC dropping, forum participation, and general money making things.

Tomorrow I’ll try and tackle WP upgrades, theme selection, etc. But, today, let me know what you think of this new design. And if you’ve got any suggestions on my other 3 designs, let me know.

My skin is no longer thin, constructive criticism is not my enemy.

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  1. I totally love my wordpress now that I’ve moved and I’m glad I did. I see it more like making the move from pull ups to big girl panties lol.

    I love WP because of all the effortless plugins & cool shizz u can do. It might be easier for me because I know HTML and don’t really need the hand holding of Blogger, but I love it a lot. I think once you move one blog over there, you’ll love it too :)

    Comment by TrishaLyn Fawver — April 30, 2008 #

  2. Yeah, Trisha I’m gettin’ there. I just learned there is a difference between the free WP and the paid one! LOL!

    Comment by LaTease — April 30, 2008 #

  3. Congrats.. you’ve made the blogroll…

    Let’s drop some hot EC around!!

    Regards
    LadyJava

    Comment by LadyJava — May 1, 2008 #

  4. Awesome!

    Comment by LaTease — May 1, 2008 #

  5. OK… I’m going to ask a dumb question. But why does everyone want to move to WP? I know they want to host themselves, but you can host a blogger blog on your own server now so what would the difference be? I love the blogger platform, if I move it to it’s own server, they can’t lock me up, can they? That’s what I need to know…
    Thanks!

    Comment by Angie — May 2, 2008 #

  6. Hey Angie,

    I moved because I wanted a different look and wordpress has so many neat plugins, that blogger doesn’t offer.

    Other than that, hey that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.

    Thanks for commenting! :))

    Comment by LaTease — May 2, 2008 #

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