Blog-related thoughts.
Apr. 25th, 2009 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randomlingLovely people who offered to icon wombats for me, I have not forgotten your kind offer - I need to hunt for wombat pics first, though. It's on the list of Stuff To Do Today. :)
Today what I want to talk about, and ask for advice/thoughts on, is my writing blog. For those who haven't seen, it's here. I kind of love having it, and love writing it, even though it's not very often about the actual writing; and I sort of love that it's separate from my LJ/DW community connections and is Doing Something Else. But anyway.
It's a WordPress blog. WordPress = awesome. I downloaded the software and put it on my web site as opposed to using their site, and I like using it. But! There is a slight issue and I'm not sure how to deal with it.
I already had web hosting set up at UK2 who seem to be quite cool and don't give me any trouble. That's for my fannish web site, Respect The Sparkle, which is all about boybanders falling in love with each other. This is all well and good, and while I don't do enough with the site really, it's nice having it up there. So I wanted to use the same hosting package (already paying for, not using it very much) for my writing blog. I bought a new domain name and away we went.
Except that the process for adding the domain name to my hosting package is all a bit strange. You add the domain name, and for a while, the new domain name comes up like a subfolder of the old one. So at first my link was: http://www.respect-the-sparkle.co.uk/lucyviret.co.uk. Not the effect I wanted, but never mind. It got fixed after about 48 hours and now the www.lucyviret.co.uk link works fine.
But if you navigate within the site, the address bar still defaults to http://www.respect-the-sparkle.co.uk/lucyviret.co.uk.
I'm not sure if this is a permanent thing, or if it's because I uploaded WordPress to the site before the name change had taken effect, or because I uploaded it to the wrong place, or what.
Also - Havi Brooks recently recced me in one of her blog posts (EEE!) and referred to it as my "Respect the Sparkle blog". AHEM. She seemed to think it was quite cool (not of course having any idea of the context!) but I'm not sure I want the sparkle itself to be a part of the Lucy Viret identity.
Meep?
I have no idea what I'm going to do about this.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
(Cross-posted to LJ and DW; comment wherever you like!)
Today what I want to talk about, and ask for advice/thoughts on, is my writing blog. For those who haven't seen, it's here. I kind of love having it, and love writing it, even though it's not very often about the actual writing; and I sort of love that it's separate from my LJ/DW community connections and is Doing Something Else. But anyway.
It's a WordPress blog. WordPress = awesome. I downloaded the software and put it on my web site as opposed to using their site, and I like using it. But! There is a slight issue and I'm not sure how to deal with it.
I already had web hosting set up at UK2 who seem to be quite cool and don't give me any trouble. That's for my fannish web site, Respect The Sparkle, which is all about boybanders falling in love with each other. This is all well and good, and while I don't do enough with the site really, it's nice having it up there. So I wanted to use the same hosting package (already paying for, not using it very much) for my writing blog. I bought a new domain name and away we went.
Except that the process for adding the domain name to my hosting package is all a bit strange. You add the domain name, and for a while, the new domain name comes up like a subfolder of the old one. So at first my link was: http://www.respect-the-sparkle.co.uk/lucyviret.co.uk. Not the effect I wanted, but never mind. It got fixed after about 48 hours and now the www.lucyviret.co.uk link works fine.
But if you navigate within the site, the address bar still defaults to http://www.respect-the-sparkle.co.uk/lucyviret.co.uk.
I'm not sure if this is a permanent thing, or if it's because I uploaded WordPress to the site before the name change had taken effect, or because I uploaded it to the wrong place, or what.
Also - Havi Brooks recently recced me in one of her blog posts (EEE!) and referred to it as my "Respect the Sparkle blog". AHEM. She seemed to think it was quite cool (not of course having any idea of the context!) but I'm not sure I want the sparkle itself to be a part of the Lucy Viret identity.
Meep?
I have no idea what I'm going to do about this.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
(Cross-posted to LJ and DW; comment wherever you like!)
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Date: 2009-04-25 05:23 pm (UTC)That's all I can think of for now, but I think there's a good chance that'll do it. I bet you set it up that way temporarily until your domain name propagated, then didn't change it after.
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Date: 2009-04-25 05:44 pm (UTC)However, I now know what I did wrong (typed the wrong URL in the box to fix it, so now it goes nowhere) so I am going to look up the WordPress FAQ to try to fix it.
Well done me?
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Date: 2009-04-25 06:21 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2009-04-25 06:31 pm (UTC)