Bummer about my template. I love that damn thing. Why can't I take it with me? Some weird code thing? Ah, well. No, no more pre-fab templates for me, so I won't go the free Wordpress route. Thanks for all the info!
Bekah --- In [email protected], Jen Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you want to move up from blogger, I suggest wordpress. You'll need > your own webserver space, and the bravery to try some scary-seeming > installation steps (that in the end aren't bad at all) to get wordpress > onto your server space. Moving all your old posts from blogger to > wordpress is easy -- which is cool, because you don't have to start > over or retype everything... all your old posts are moved over + > retained. As for the templates, no, you can't use a blogger template > for anything but blogger. You'll have to pick out a wordpress template. > Perhaps that's a place to start -- go surfing for a wordpress template > (called a "theme") and see if there are any you like. You can modify > them easily by just swapping out images (masthead, background etc.) > More complex modifications are pretty hard and something most people > don't do. Adding / changing the links in the sidebar, etc, is super > easy -- easier than with blogger 'cause you do it in the blog > adminstration world (in forms) not on the template/theme documents. > Wordpress is more powerful than blogger -- categories being the biggest > new feature. AND since the whole rig-a-ma-roll in on _your_ server, > (not half on your server (if you have one) and half on their servers > (like blogger), then if wordpress servers go down, it doesn't affect > you at all. > [All of this is me writing about wordpress the full install -- gotten > at wordpress.org, and not wordpress.com, the new free service. The > problem with Wordpress.com is that it's very limited in how you can > customize how it looks. Basically you are stuck with their pre-fab > templates without any way to modify them -- so I don't recommend that > service (yet).] > > Check out: > http://teaching.jensimmons.com/videoblogging/blogsoftware.htm > for links to wordpress theme collections and other info. > > good luck!! > and hey, email me if you'd like some help, > > Jen > > > jenSimmons > http://www.emergingawareness.org > http://www.inclinationsthemovie.com > http://www.jensimmons.com > On Mar 24, 2006, at 12:10 PM, missbhavens1969 wrote: > > > Comment windows that won't load. Crashing. Posts and comments getting > > eaten. Blah, blah, > > blah. I like it's no-frilledness and ease of use, but the bugs seem > > to be mounting and I have > > fears of my videoblog vanishing into this air (I do back up, though). > > > > If nothing changes about my feed, and I decide to move on to greener > > vlog pastures, can I > > take my template with me? Just copy the whole thing and paste it > > elsewhere? Pack up and > > leave? It's fairly new and I'm quite fond of it. > > > > Hey! No laughing, computer whizzes! I just don't know this stuff! > > > > Any input wouls be helpful, > > Thanks, > > Bekah > > __ > > http://www.missbhavens.com > > > > > > > > > > > > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > > ⪠ Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web. > >  > > ⪠ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >  > > ⪠ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > > Service. > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
