LadySivitri.net

I spent most of the day working on transferring Dot’s blog over to her own domain.  It was rewarding to be able to figure out things and make them work!  All I have left is getting the footer and sidebars complete – it doesn’t seem like the widget functionality works very well; maybe that is something I can fix in the future.  Then the chore of importing the Blogger posts – it is fairly simple and most pictures and video transfer just fine; but WordPress likes to put all of Blogger’s “labels” as “categories” instead of “tags” and that is a real nightmare – especially since she has 350 posts!  If you are serious about keeping a blog, get your own domain name right from the start, that way you don’t have to start over building page rank when you decide you need more control.  WestHost has some great deals right now, and their customer service is fantastic.

Today I delved into a number of things that I had no clue on.  I registered my own domain, paid for hosting, set up email accounts, played around with DNS servers (accidentally deleted my own DNS once), installed WordPress, and figured out that nobody cares about HTML anymore.  It is all about php, css, and something called XML.  The internet sure has come a long way since I used a packet server to send messages from mountaintop to mountaintop back in the early 80s.  Now, you do something called tweeting?

I feel like one of those baby birds.  I’m tweeting in hopes that someone will hear me and come feed me.

I am a total Twitter Newbie.  Sure, I’ve heard of Twitter, but I couldn’t figure out what it would do for me.  I was perfectly happy with text messages on my phone.

With the  help of Genesis Rocket, I figured out how to set up my Twitter account, make it look nice, tweak it up correctly, and get all my links in the right places.  I also learned what retweet meant.  (That’s baby bird #2 and #3 saying, yeah, what HE said!)

I wonder how long I’ll tweet before momma bird finally turns around to feed me?