Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

PN, when you are writing stuff can you go back and add days in the past. I have notes, as per Carolt's previous requests, and I'd like to pad them out, work on them before adding them.

Tomterm, what do you think of what PN replied about the wordpress thing.

The reason I don't want to use the name of the potential business or farm is because I think its a good idea at this stage to keep it slightly at arms length.

Sue, I'm very glad I made you smile!

lemonjelly

tomterm8 wrote: »

I'm going to go against PasturesNew here, if you go for a free web blog site, I would recommend the free blog site Blogger.com over wordpress, because although wordpress is a better platform, Blogger is owned by Google, and you can monetize it via adsence very easily (in fact, it is the easiest way to get accepted on adsence).

PasturesNew wrote: »

Tom is correct, you can monetise. However, I find Blogger more confusing and more dated-looking. Also, if one's longer-term plans might be to take the content onto your own hosted blog, then the Wordpress interface will be mostly the same and the words are easily exported/imported.

Also, I know blogger is owned by Google, but it's often considered that Google actually treats Wordpress blogs more favourably than blogger ones.

Wordpress, in the longer-term (on own-hosted versions) also has more plugins and options.

So, I'd still stand by Wordpress.

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

After today, how about: NakedFarmersWife?

I'd read this...

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

PN, when you are writing stuff can you go back and add days in the past. I have notes, as per Carolt's previous requests, and I'd like to pad them out, work on them before adding them.

Tomterm, what do you think of what PN replied about the wordpress thing.

The reason I don't want to use the name of the potential business or farm is because I think its a good idea at this stage to keep it slightly at arms length.

Sue, I'm very glad I made you smile!

I don't use wordpress.com so can only tell you what I can do with wordpress software on my own domain.

You write a post - and the post has a number, 1, 2, 3, etc. You press "publish" and the world can see it. And it gives it today's date. BUT - you can set the date to be any date you want, so theoretically, you could suddenly remember something from Xmas Day last year and add a new post, ID=250 as you've been at it awhile and simply set the date to be 25/12/2009 - or any year.

In fact, one of my "top tips" for building a blog is to start by writing posts in the past and changing the date. I wrote an entire blog dated back to about 2008 by writing it in 2009 and simply choosing my dates. Even yesterday on my current blog I wrote two items which I've dated to be in May 2010.

Anything you write/do can be changed, so you can publish something with today's date then think uh-ho, oops, that was yesterday's - and pop back in and change it.

Anything you write, you can save in draft format - and publish when you're ready too.

I think for now, what's important is that you fiddle with a blog and get used to writing stuff - get it into your routine and get comfortable with it. Anything else can come later. Many people fizzle out by the 3rd post, to be honest (if they get that far).

Edit: Oh, you don't have to publish anything if you don't want. Another top tip would be for you to get 20-30 posts all in there and happy with them, then just press the PUBLISH button every two days, so you've always got a stack for when you can't be 4rsed.

You can also set them up to publish on specific future dates, at specific times.

I like to publish mine at 2pm or so, because for who I write for that's when the biggest Internet audience for that material is most likely to be awake ... although it's irrelevant to be that anal for most people.

lostinrates

I'm trying to sign up and all my incredibly original, unique names are...taken. Its like when I heard someone call for their dog ''Happy'' in a London park and the name I'd been planning for a dog for ages was ruined instantly...originality, its all been done before.

edit: options that are taken would be very good advertising if I decided to not be anonymous in someway in the future!:o

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=wordpress&word2=blogger

PasturesNew

This whole site is really lagging and dragging for me tonight. I've already rebooted thinking maybe that'd help, but it hasn't - and it's just this site, no others.

PasturesNew

Ah, it wasn't just me then..... all shut down for a technical problem. And it's still ongoing as it took me ages to get here.

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

PN, when you are writing stuff can you go back and add days in the past. I have notes, as per Carolt's previous requests, and I'd like to pad them out, work on them before adding them.

Tomterm, what do you think of what PN replied about the wordpress thing.

The reason I don't want to use the name of the potential business or farm is because I think its a good idea at this stage to keep it slightly at arms length.

Sue, I'm very glad I made you smile!

This old site is really slow tonight.

OK, in an ideal world, my prefered set up for a blog is a wordpress blog on a self hosted domain. I think wordpress is one of the best content management platforms, and I think it is easy to use.

I don't have a great deal of faith in either blogger or wordpress.com, I much prefer to self-host. If you do chose a free blog host, write your posts in word and save them, then copy and paste into the blog.

Entire sites have been taken down from blogger or wordpress (the site that offers free blogs) for no particularly good reason.

The reason I thought blogger was a good site it that most people find it very easy to get an adsence account via blogger... once you have an adsence account, you can use it on a wordpress blog or any other site.

So if you're starting a microblog, as a first experience... well. Either solution is probably quite reasonable. It comes down to taste. I agree with pastures new that wordpress is good.

Either way, if you are going to try out a blog, I think it is the kind of thing that starts very slow, so it can feel a little like you are just talking to yourself. It pays off in the longer term.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

This whole site is really lagging and dragging for me tonight. I've already rebooted thinking maybe that'd help, but it hasn't - and it's just this site, no others.

I rebooted too thinking it was my pc....got back online and found the message.

Oh and forgot to save the last bit of my study before shutting down (my concentration wandered a tad because of the children and I hit no to saving!), so just had to do the last bit again :mad: