Travelling On

Karmacat

Yikes, sideways snow? I don't fancy that at all! Hope you're warm enough, Cheery. I must say, this flat isn't that warm - lots of single glazing (that rattles!) and the two doors are the same. I have a nice woollen rug over my knees right now, in lovely faded tartan, it's ideal

teapot2

Stay warm KC, definitely an afternoon/evening to be indoors.

Karmacat

Thanks teapot! I did - and I confess I wore my fleece to bed last night :eek:

It's still very parky round here, and also I'm hiding in the bedroom while the cleaner is cleaning everywhere else she has no English at all, so once I've smiled, thats it! The cats are on the bed, so I'm casting admiring glances at them occasionally :rotfl:

SB is my saviour at odd times like this, so I'm pootling away at it. Sorting my bookmarks is another classic :rotfl: I can finalise my blogpost, actually, and experiment with getting it into the free slot on wordpress. Couldn't do that when I closed down my therapy work website, but maybe wordpress itself will go better.

Karmacat

Yes! Wordpress make it very easy to replace your free site with another one. But there are issues:


- my personal blog, sunlightandimagination, would disappear. I don't post on it, the last time being when I shared photos of the flowers that Virgin Trains sent me when I complimented them on their staff members who helped me on the day my mum died.

- if its going to be free, everything has the name "wordpress" in it. But at the moment, people see the word "gridhosted" when they link to each individual post of mine. The title of the blog alone doesn't. Does this matter? If writing kindle books is going to become more important, I don't think it does, but I'm not sure.

- if I stay where I am, I'd like to get that "gridhosted" thing out of the link (but see below on whether followers etc are still able to follow).

- some people (a few only!) already follow or get informed by email of posts - if I move back to wordpress, will they still find me? Or still follow/ be informed?

- If I *do* want to focus on kindle books, maybe I'm overthinking this :rotfl:


In a way, this is all just for me, but if anyone has any ideas or personal preferences, feel free to chip in - it's all about what looks good as a headline to a webpage after all, and we all read webpages!

Cheery_Daff

Good questions! :j And mostly ones I don't know the answer to sadly

The free wordpress blogs do have (I think) quite intrusive adverts on them, just to warn you in case you didn't know. I could never see them on my own old wordpress blog because I was logged in, but other people could. Some folk I know have work-related wordpress blogs and I find it quite incongruous to be faced with adverts for bizarre things when I'm reading about work stuff.

Having said that, of course they have to make it free somehow! I don't object to adverts in principle but the wordpress ones do seem a bit in your face sometimes (might just be me though )

I can feel myself heading wildly out of my depth here... so apologies if I just confuse things further...

Is gridhost your hosting company? Do you already pay them for hosting? You could get rid of 'gridhost' out of the name (I think) by paying for a domain name, and pointing your existing website at that - you'd keep your followers (but would have to pay, I think mine was about £9 a year on top of the hosting).

If you switched to free wordpress site I think (but don't KNOW) you'd lose your followers. I don't know whether you can migrate the whole thing? I failed to do that when I set up my new site and lost everything on the old one In my case I should have just copied and pasted all the posts into a word doc! But I didn't... I suppose you'd have to do a final couple of posts on the old one pointing people to the new one (but if you'd migrated the whole lot, maybe they wouldn't notice? I only did that because I'd stopped posting on one and started up a whole new one so maybe that wouldn't apply?)

Gah, see, I'm out of my depth already Sorry! I've switched various blogs in the past, but mostly just started a new one each time with a new name (switched from blogger to wordpress to weebly). With my work blog, I confused myself by switching hosting providers (I was paying for one to avoid adverts, without realising Mr Cheery was already paying for hosting elsewhere, so we combined - but in the process I lost all my old posts as I didn't migrate properly in time). That was also confusing as for work I've paid for a domain name (without wordpress in the title) so had to point that at the new host.

Gosh, I'm still talking, and I still don't really know what I'm talking about! Shut up Cheery! :eek: :rotfl:

Hope you manage to sort it out satisfactorily

Karmacat

Cheery, a lot of that is really helpful, thank you! Helps me to have other people's thoughts and knowledge to build on. I didn't know about the adverts that can be seen on a free site if you're not logged in - they do look weird very often, I agree.

The weird thing about "gridhost" is that its *not* my hosting company, thats tsohost. They give you a choice about how your posts can be seen in the links, and as far as I remember (I chose it a while ago) thats the only version that has a rough name of the post in the link title. I could give it a numerical version that I *think* would get rid of the gridhost thing, and would be easy to do, yes. Previous links to the blog would be nullified by that, I think (good heavens, I know so little!) but if I'm considering this as a sort of relaunch, then maybe thats a cost thats worth paying, with due notice?

I agree that all this is incredibly confusing!

My work website was weebly - they were wonderful! But they don't have free accounts any longer, and tsohost is by far the cheapest of the paid accounts - £15 a year. And that's the thing, really - maybe I should switch to a link format that I dislike less :rotfl: and get on with writing kindle books :cool:

I'll get back on there and have another look at my options, I think. More to come!

Suffolk_lass

Whatever you decide to do, please post a link in your profile on here. I can see the "homepage" for your Virgin Flowers blog and I have a vague recollection of seeing some cat pics but maybe somewhere else.

Karmacat

Aw, thank you SL, I will since it doesn't earn anything directly in affiliate fees etc, that's got to be okay

Karmacat

I'm home it didn't burn down while I was away Bit cold, very tired, the thermostat ran out of battery power so I had to change the batteries before the heating would come on! Something to be said for having a twice yearly battery charging event - if there'd been snow round here when I was away, there would've been no heat, and the pipes might have frozen. All's well that ends well, for now though

rtandon27

:j Happy homecoming KC! :j