After much consideration and research, I have decided to move my blog from the present blogger platform to wordpress. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that the blogger is not good enough. In fact, I prefer blogger to wordpress. I am not sure why. Maybe I have grown attached to it? Maybe I just like to get my hands all dirty and go straight into the codes to tweak them.
As you can see here, this site is still under heavy construction. Blog entries from blogger will not be imported here. It is just too complicated and time consuming for a busy guy who eat 6 meals a day. (Nah I am just plain lazy to read the help file.) Alot of preparation are needed before you can just abandon the old blog and start anew.
There are emotional issues you have to tackle if you are an emotional guy like me. Throwing away years of blog memories are not easy as learning your abc. (I know someone must be on the ground by now laughing so hard that tears are free flowing.)
After you have over come the emotional issues of starting everything afresh, let us start with a to-do list.
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Blogging Platform
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Hosting
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Installation
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Customisation
There are quite a few out there in the cyberspace. We, bloggers are spoiled for choice over here. Just to name a few of them.
It’s really up to the individual preference over here. Someone’s meat might be another one’s poison. My advice is to play around with the plateform before you settle down on one or better still, Google a few reviews to help you decide.
So, you have decided on the blog platform. Now, time to decide between free hosting or paid hosting. There are always some restrictions when using free hosting. So decide if you can live with the restrictions. For me, I have decided to try out the paid hosting. As usual, Google a few reviews on the hosting companies and through word of mouth I shortlisted two of them.
In the end we (the hosting is shared between a few of us) chose Dreamhost for it’s wonderful tech support, weekly increasing bandwidth and hard-disk space and the discount if we sign up two years. (not too hard to digest for you at this point of time?) Another plus point for Dreamhost is that they have a function called One Click which automates the installation of wordpress for me. Makes my blog shifting a hell lot easier.
There are still plenty of stuff for me to learn and get used to. I am still coping with my loss. Once in awhile I still go back to my old blog and take a look at it. Afterall, I have spend many years blogging there. All good things must come to an end. Let’s look ahead to the future and the joy this blog is going to bring.
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