My tersely written first post.
by ley on Apr.09, 2009, under General, Unassorted
Welcome to my new blog!
Hmm. It’s quite challenging for me to set up this blog as I do not know anything about HTML. After numerous try-and-error repetitions, finally I’m confident enough to release this to the public.
Searching for hoster alone spent my precious 4 hours. Finally, I settled down with godaddy.com. It’s amongst the cheapest hoster I found. Then, I ‘invested’ 2 days figuring out how to get everything done.
It cost me around USD 50 to set up this blog, and the same price will be applied for each of the following years. I know some people may be cynical about the idea of paying for blogging. But I think it’s worth it, as I will have more chance to explore with HTML and learn something of it. This is a good chance of learning, I guess. That’s the primary reason of me paying for this blog. Secondly, I can have the full control of this blog. I’m no longer being governed by blogspot. Haha!
Can my wise readers please comment on my new blog? It can be regarding layout, style, my post, and basically you can share your precious ideas. I’d be much obliged. =)
I’ll try to update more often. Try my best. Hmm.
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April 9th, 2009 on 8:53 am
hmmm…. the links to our blog, alittle cacat dun u tink so? in the middle down there so long.. haha..tak balance.. hehe.. just kidding la, u happy sudah laaa…
anyway, who will be cynical wor?! its ur blog, u wan buy then buy lor.. Shengloong-dear did the same wat.. hehe…
April 9th, 2009 on 9:17 am
ya. i know that one is cacat lo. hate it. coz the skin layout is like that one ma. finding new skin. haha!
aiya, i say it in general ma. coz many people don’t want to pay for blog ma. =)
April 21st, 2009 on 1:30 am
Hey ah teo,
Finally got another friend who blogs with custom domain name and self-hosted Wordpress blog. Too bad I just moved my blog from my server to Blogger few months ago. I would prefer NameCheap as my domain name registrar and HostMonster as my hosting provider. GoDaddy is good as well according to many people but I have never tried it before.
Anyway my advice is u can try modify the permanent link structure of your blog. Simply log into your wordpress panel, go to Settings–>Permalinks. You should notice that it is initially set to default which is something like http://i-perceive.net/?p=123. I would recommend you to change it to custom structure with /%postname%/. It would make your URLs look more readable and preferred by search engines.
Anything you are not sure about Wordpress.org just leave me a message on my blog. I will try my best to help you. Don’t forget I am studying IT. Lol!
p/s: Just added you new blog onto my blogroll.