Techno heebies-jeebies
Well, that was moderately painful. Being the aforementioned blog n00b, I’ve been struggling with some relatively obsucre technical aspects of the setup - nothing major, but things like getting the site running on the www subdomain, rather than the root domain; disallowing indexing access to the folders; adding an index.htm file, so you don’t get a 4xx return when you access the domain root.
Nothing too disastrous, I think you’d agree, but all things that I’d rather not have broken, y’know? Between that and yesterdays escapades, it’s made me think a bit about how far from being an “average” user I am.
In 2 days, I’ve gone from concept to relatively tidy, functioning blog, including buying the domain and separate hosting plus getting the 2 working together, selecting and installing a blog package, and grabbing some FTP software, configuring it and using it to upload .htaccess and other files to the correct locations in my sites directory structure.
If I hadn’t been working in Internet related stuff for a few years, I wouldn’t even have known that half of these thngs were even possible, let alone have a chance of figuring them out on my own. How the hell do WWW n00bs ever manage this stuff? It must be a nightmare for them. I guess that’s why some of the more “fire’n'forget” solutions (Blogger on a Blogger subdomain etc) get traction.
Well, sod. Turns out I’d got the www / non-www redirect wrong
Comment by TallTroll — October 16, 2006 @ 6:36 pm
Hi
I have just gone through this whole blog setup thing for myself and a friend. Biggest problem I found was getting all the themes and trying them out.
I managed to download about 30-40 themes. I will put them up on mysite in a zip if you want them and save you some time, even write a quick post on installing and changing them.
Drop me a line, PS like your content so far, very high brow SEO.
Mike
Sydney
Comment by Mike — October 16, 2006 @ 9:34 pm
That would be marvellous. Anything that saves me having to do the legwork, I’m clearly in favour of
>> like your content so far, very high brow SEO.
I’m a very highbrow SEO, ROFL. Unless you actually know me…
I’m going to carry on with more of the same, so stay tuned
Comment by TallTroll — October 16, 2006 @ 10:35 pm
Nice to see you got a blog at least suprised you not already have one!!
Working through your posts will add some comments later with some theme ideas.
Comment by purple — October 18, 2006 @ 5:43 pm