A kick in the Googles Pt 2
Things have not been going well with the changes necessitated by Blogger's withdrawal of FTP support. Creating a Wordpress theme that accurately mimics Doodlecat's existing design seems to be beyond my (limited) abilities. Thus I have a choice between these three options:
- Choose an existing Wordpress theme and modify it a bit. Trouble is, I cannot export the ftp Blogger posts directly into Wordpress, so I'd have to move it all over to Blogger first. And I'd need to work carefully on the CSS to make sure all the static pages worked properly. There's an awful lot of them!
- Create a new index page for the site and have just this page hosted by Blogger as the Doodlecat Blog or whatever. Clunky and possibly slow - but easy to do.
- Just stop blogging altogether - it was only ever embedded in the home page to allow multiple users to add content to Doodlecat. We no longer do that, so this is now just an amusing pastime. I could go and do something more useful instead.
posted by Phil at
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
6 Comments:
Option Two!
You ain't no quitter!
Go on... You know you want to...
(Loved the video!)
LOLOL at the video! Quite inspired :)
Please don't think of stopping. Your blogs are just about my favourites to read: always so interesting, and well written!
Is there a group of pissed-off people having to make alternative arrangements? If so, almost certainly some of them will know how to write scripts, and they may be willing to help.
p.s. Are you thinking wordpress.com or wordpress.org?
Al, you know my motto - "if at first you don't succeed - give up". It's got me where I am today :-)
always so interesting, and well written!
Oh, Shirl *blush* you old flatterer, you!
I think there are far more people than Google imagined who are mightily pissed off at the mo'. Trouble is, they are all heading off in different directions, as self willed folk are prone to do, so guidance is a bit thin on the ground.
I am gradually being persuaded to to carry on with my occasional ramblings, and I have gone with Wordpress.org. I actually have Wordpress installed on my server and running in a subdomain for testing at the moment - and it's steadily driving me mad 'cos I know how I want Doodlecat to look & function and I can't make it work!
Miss W, as always, has come to my aid with a book entitled "Wordpress for Dummies".
'Should be right for you', she smirked ... and sadly, she's probably right.
Watch this space ...
I keep coming back to the video Phil - he even looks like you! Inspired!
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