I decided it was time and bit the bullet, made the commitment, said “I do” to WordPress and we settled our blogging lives into our own domain, 7 Color Lagoon . We became family with a home on the web host. Ah, to think that there was a possibility of sub-domains to come, buying up virtual real estate, moving in a sexy new dance called “SEO”. All was right with the world — or was it?
Disillusionment came quickly. Our marriage showed rifts, fractures, tears and frustration. What had I so blithely gotten myself into? The web host installed WP and I went to work “migrating” (no green card needed) my Blogger life to WordPress. I looked at 1001 different themes and finally settled on one. I tweaked colors and columns, added links and ads and Pages (little blogs spat from the mother-blog). I would love to say I had mastered NVU, Freeway or Dreamweaver but the skills come slowly and only this week have I begun making my own pages for my site . The road ahead is long and rocky.
Oh, Miss Lonelyblogs, what happened to sideline that romantic freight train on the tracks of love?
I learned that the seductress of panting bloggers was not as easy to get along with as she seemed. She was downright ornery, hard to handle, to control, always making you wait while she did some private thing in her storage closet. Only a few hours after a week of working on her and sighing on how well it went in spite of so much time wasted; her developer let it be known he had re-made her in a new version. Proper fellow that I am I set about installing the new version. Many hours later my site was lost. I recovered her and she was preening on the Web yet again after only a week of frustration.
Oh, Miss Lonelyblogs, the web host I hired has been sweet but not quite all there, if you know what I mean.
Did you notice that a 99.9% guaranteed uptime has some fine print below? The infrastructure of the host's site is promised to work 99.9% of the time. They will have a site. It doesn't mean that you will. Mine was up about 40% for a while, then 60 or more and, recently, it began working like the 21st century artifact it is. They have always been sweet and supportive but sadly said I was on the dread MySql10. It didn't work very well. Someday they hoped they would be able to fix it. That is another part of the equation, almost a menage a trois. Who did what to whom? When is the blogware acting up or the host? Or is it the Mexican ISP taking a siesta. No matter. At least the host has done what they promised to do — fixed it.
Article comments
1 - Christopher Rose
Howard, I'm having many of the same issues as you but after reading your article, I can now at least laugh about it! Thanks for that.
2 - High Heels
I've played around with so many blogs, I've lost track. I think I may even have got one of them pregnant, but it was a group blog, so nobody can prove anything... *runs home to Blogger when nobody is looking.*
HH ;)
3 - Temple Stark
Well played, sir. Miss LonelyBlogs has a lot to answer for.
I still don't know how to create pages with WP, and I don't know if that's because I'm on a Mac (doubtful but I keep it there as an excuse) or because I really just can't figure it out and need to sit down and try. I'm extremely loathe to use up vacation time to do it. :-)