Packing My Stuff And Moving

March 21, 2009 by Chris  
Filed under Rants, Site Design

Well… I did it.  I finally decided I’d had enough of Blogger.  There were just too many things about blogging there that I couldn’t stand.  I have given up & bailed.  This, will be my new home.

There are so many more things that I can do using Wordpress.  There are thousands of different plugins I can download and implement.  I know how to work a template.  I don’t have to deal with the way the pictures turn out when they’re uploaded at Blogger.  I can make my own templates & I can write my own plugins if I need to.  I love Wordpress and I knew from the very beginning that I was royally screwing up by using Blogger.  I hate the limitations over there.

I can’t stand not being in total control of my sites.  That drives me nuts.  That’s one reason I’ve also bailed on myspace & the reason I never got into facebook.  I gotta have control & that’s all there is to it.

I spent the last 10 hours importing everything from Coke On My Keyboard over here.  What a mess that was!  It turned all of my tags into categories.  Messed up a couple CSS attributes.  And the biggest pain in the butt was downloading all of my pictures, uploading them & changing the links on each of them. It wasn’t really hard to fix the problems.  It was just time consuming.  It would’ve been a breeze if there weren’t already so many posts here & if I weren’t integrating them.

The worst part is the fact that the comment import didn’t link anyone’s name with their site.  That really upsets me.  But… I’m sure all of you will be commenting soon enough and guess what… I even have CommentLuv installed for you beautiful people.  =)  Easy as pie when it’s Wordpress instead of Blogger.  LOL

I’m going to try and get back into featuring a site & post each week.  That was my main goal for Text Imps when I first bought the domain.  But my main focus is going to stay with my personal blog.

So…. Here I am.

If you subscribe to Coke On My Keyboard, please update your subscriptions.  There’s a feed button up there in the top right corner.  I also put one of those google friend thing-a-ma-bobs over in the sidebar.  I THINK you can use that to follow, just like on Blogger… but I’m really not sure.

If ya’ll have anything suggestions about the layout here, anything that’ll make navigating easier, let me know.  =D  Thanks for jumping over here.  Grab a drink from my fridge.  I think there’s water, soda and a couple kinds of juice.  Put your feet up.  And….  I dunno.  LOL…  My brain has shut off.  Too many codes flying through my head right now.

Comments

5 Comments on "Packing My Stuff And Moving"

  1. staciesmadness on Sun, 22nd Mar 2009 9:20 am 

    good luck with your new home. :)
    staciesmadness’s last blog post..Bubba say wha???

  2. Rachael on Mon, 23rd Mar 2009 12:55 am 

    I’m glad you decided to switch since you were so annoyed with Blogger, and this place looks great! I have been contemplating possible switch to Wordpress, but haven’t made any decisions. I don’t really understand how to install a Wordpress template that you find online? So maybe I’ll figure that out, I guess that’s the main problem I have right now!

    Rachael’s last blog post..It was the bear

  3. courtney from mommie blogs on Mon, 23rd Mar 2009 7:42 am 

    best of luck in your new home! and one day, I think I will get around to switching as well. but for now, its at the bottom of my to-do list (because it takes effort and organization:) ).

    p.s. math problems? hilarious!

    courtney from mommie blogs’s last blog post..the latest on double l

  4. Barbara on Mon, 23rd Mar 2009 3:38 pm 

    Blimey - have you got enough bookmark thingamijigs!!! Happy New House - when’s the house warming party?

    Hahahahahaha, keep those maths problems simple - I’m not too good at maths and I’d hate to not be able to comment.

    Barbara’s last blog post..81/365 - Watching Me, Watching You

  5. Salwa on Mon, 23rd Mar 2009 8:34 pm 

    I think you made a right choice moving to WordPres. With all the plugins available, nothing makes blogging with wordpress any easier and it is just so flexible. You can twist it however you wish!

    Salwa’s last blog post..Why “Nofollow” Tags Won’t Work!

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