Jan. 4, 2007 - Premature Blogulation |
Chalk this up the best laid plans of beagles and men ...
Here was the plan. For the past couple of days I have been working on relocating - not physically, but at least in blogging spirit. After considerable research I had decided the time had come to move my blog to my own server. I decided this with virtually no knowledge of the WordPress platform but, knowing I'm a somewhat bright individual, I thought this would be easy.
When I discovered it wasn't so easy, I decided to begin a countdown with a firm deadline. Without the deadline, I might never finish. With the deadline, come hell or high water, I was going to be making the move. Only two people outside of my wife (who gave me the same quizzical look she gives me during most football discussions) knew that this change was in the offing.
I wrote a quick post on my new blog, both as an introduction and to get a feel for the platform. I didn't ping the entry. I didn't do anything else with it. My blog wasn't ready.
Then the blog was discovered by both the boys at sellsius and by Jay Thompson, The Phoenix Real Estate Guy.
And so now I am here ... opening the doors to the new blog at myblog.daltonsazhomes.com while I still have electricians running wire and plumbers making sure there's running water and inspectors checking the works. Keep in mind that this is a work in progress, but with enough effort I expect to have everything the way I almost want it by the weekend. And I say almost want it because I've discovered one of the side effects of blogging is a lack of satisfaction for the current state of anything electronic. There's always a better widget.
In any event, here's some information for the road ...
- To the folks at RealTown Blogs, you have my eternal thanks for providing this platform and getting me started down the path of owning a blog. It's impossible to believe this all has been only in the past year.
- Additional thanks to Lady Ardell, without whose prompting I never would have gotten this blog going in the first place. If only I could get her to stop SHOUTING at me in bold-faced type when I disagree with her.
- If you have this blog in your RSS Viewers (a la Google Reader, etc.), here is the new feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DaltonsArizonaHomesBlog
- If you are subscribing to this blog via e-mail, I'll be switching over your subscriptions. You also can do so with the form on the new blog. If you've been debating unsubscribing, this probably would be a good time to tell me before I enter your e-mail address into the new system.
- If I'm on your blogroll, please enter the new address: http://myblog.daltonsazhomes.com
- All of the posts here to date will remain here. I may pull over a couple of the more popular ones, but for the most part I will be beginning fresh.
In general we're going to be taking a couple of steps backward to move significantly forward, not only on the blog but on my Dalton's Arizona Homes website. I'm going from 63 linked blogs to zero. But there's no question the time has come to move on. At various times this blog has driven up to 13% of the traffic to RealTown Blogs. I'd like to see what we do on our own two feet.
The morale of this story? You really can teach a dog new tricks. Or what to do with a widget, even.
We'll see you on the other side, my friends.
(c) Jonathan Dalton, 2007 / Jonathan Dalton's Arizona Homes
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