Posts Tagged ‘blogging’
Start Right March 16th, 2009
So, you’re thinking about starting a blog? Do you know about: hosting, urls, domain names, plugins, permalinks, php, .htaccess, apachee, index.php, seo, site redirects, mod_rewrites, widgets, ftp, chmod or the difference between 0644 and 0777 (besides 133 ☺) Well, I do, but I’d suggest that you not. Here’s the thing I started this blog a few weeks ago on a whim. Problem is, I hadn’t taken a lot of time to learn the basics. I just bought a domain name slapped it in an old web-host and got going. Fast forward a few weeks, and I’ve spent more hours trying to fix things on the blog than I have witting.
First, I didn’t have a good web host. Then I installed my blog in a sub-domain. This led to a site redirect. So when I tried to improve my seo (search engine optimization) I realized my permalinks were “ugly” but I couldn’t change them ☹ because my .htacces file was in the sub-domain not the root and then…. Sorry about that, I’ll get to the point.
If you want to start blogging, take your time and start right. Spend a little time researching the process. There’s a lot of good information out there and if you take a couple of days to check it out you might save yourself several weeks of heaches and a lot of details you’ll wish you never knew.
BTW… Isn’t this that why children’s ministry is so important. If we can help kids get started right, with a strong spiritual foundation. We can save them from years of frustration and confusion. Then, maybe, they can spend more time living for Jesus instead of fixing problems caused by careless mistakes.
Just a thought ☺
Tags: blogging, Children's Ministry, christianity, life, web hosting
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Slow going March 6th, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I began blogging with great enthusiasm and anticipation. I loaded up my blog, tweaked my theme and I was ready to go, right? Wrong… as anyone who has visited this site before now already knows, nedgable.com was agonizingly slow. I tried all the recommended Wordpress fixes. I deactivated plugins, tried less graphic intensive themes, and reloaded my site, all for naught. After about a week of trying everything I could think of I finally discovered the problem. It was my web host. I’ve used dreamhost for years with other websites and church blogs and have had very few problems. Unfortunately, it seems they’ve been the victim of several web-attacks and hardware failures lately. Problem is, they can’t seem to get the issues fixed and that leaves their service unreliable at best. So after giving dreamhost some time to resolve their issues, I decided to make a move. After a lot of blood, sweat and tears, I’ve moved my web hosting and rebuilt my site. Nedgable.com should now back up and running, hopefully with a little less frustration. Special thanks to all of you (or maybe both of you is more appropriate ☺) who put up with the slowness and visited my blog anyway.
Tags: blogging, dreamhost, web hosting
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