Re: Note on blogging

**Doug Green d*@xplornet.com**

Wordpress has an import function that will (in theory) allow you to
import files from blogger (and several other blogging platforms).  I
haven't done this yet as I'm still thinking of the best way to migrate
the subscribers to the current blog (I wish I had started my own url-
blog at the beginning - too smart too late) :-)

I note the fun thing about wordpress is the functionality of it and all
the plugins you can obtain to make it do interesting things.  Links are
included in every download and you'll go nuts trying some or all of
them. (major time waster notice here!) :-)

Doug

On Tue, 2006-31-10 at 16:22 -0500, Jeff Ball wrote:
> Doug,
> Does this program allow you to download all the files on the blogspot  
> site over to the new sight?  Sounds good in any case.
> 
> Jeff Ball
> jeffball@usol.com
> 810-724-8581
> Check out my daily blog at www.gardeneryardener.blogspot.com
> Check out my extensive web site at www.yardener.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 30, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Douglas Green wrote:
> 
> If you've been thinking of starting a blog, let me suggest you head  
> over to
> http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/10/24/domain-mapping-registration/
> 
> And sign up for a wordpress blog with your own url - either that or  
> sign up
> for your own url and install wordpress (a free download) on it.
> 
> The technical reasons for having your own url (search engines find you
> easier etc.) outweight the minimal costs of owning your own url or  
> using the
> wordpress system.
> 
> I now use wordpress but not on their servers as this link suggests  
> you do. I
> registered my url at godaddy.com (for $1.99) and bought a year's  
> worth of
> hosting (sign up manually over the telephone and ask if there's any
> unpublished specials - I got a 20% discount for asking) for my new  
> blog (url
> in sig line) and now I'm having a great bit of fun populating it with  
> new
> articles, a newsletter picture contest and comments.
> 
> In any case, not that I'm an expert but every bit of advice I read on
> blogging says serious bloggers don't use blogger.com (particularly after
> this weekend when it has been down most of the time). LoL!  I'll be  
> phasing
> my blogger.com site out as the other sites come online with google et  
> al.
> 
> The wordpress stuff is hot off the press (or almost hot) and  
> certainly food
> for thought in the blogging world.
> 
> Doug
> 
> Doug Green SGF Communications: e-publishing content
> Home: http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com
> Blog  http://www.douggreensgarden.com/wordpress/
> 
> 
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