New Domain

September 13, 2009

Carol Design, Experiences , , , , Leave a comment

Ok. I can’t wait for the colorfulstories.com backorder to be successful so I registered a new domain instead. hercolofulstories.com will be my temporary domain name for a year because colorfulstories.com will be available (hopefully) by next year, May 2010. I actually didn’t want the new domain, hercolorfulstories.com bacause it sounds like I own every stories or every posts in this blog. It’s like they are my stories, only focused on me. That’s not what I want for this blog.. I shouldn’t have choosen the domain in the first place. Anyways, I’m not in a hurry. Next step I need to do is to host this blog somewhere. GoDaddy I guess? But.. I can’t do it now. I guess I used up all my credit balance. Haha!

Thanks for the comments on My Own Domain, Own Blog Design and Own Feelings. I will definitely change the way my blog looks once I get all things in place. Will also make it SEO Friendly blog by next year once I get that colorfulstories.com domain. I’m not in a hurry. I have my whole life to work on this project. Haha.

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My Own Domain, Own Blog Design and Own Feelings

September 12, 2009

Carol Design, Experiences , , , , , , 5 Comments

I backordered colorfulstories.com from GoDaddy.com today. Hope it will be successful! I have lots of plans for my blog. I want it to have my own design.. You know, manage everything, make it pass the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) standards, be able to include music in my posts, videos, etc.

While I was studying on how to have my own website, I came across WordPress Fortunes. It is a site that offers a step-by-step blogging tutorials for beginners. It was interesting. It promises members that they would be a WordPress Master in 3 Days. Check-out its dedicated page for information if you’re quite curious: WordPress Fortunes Information. As you read through that information, you’ll feel a certain urge to sign-up because of the promising videos and tools that they would present. This isn’t free of cost! You need to be a member and give out $47. Too bad. I think this isn’t the right time for me to spend that money yet. I’ll wait for my back order to be successfull first so I can change this blog’s domain. No .wordpress anymore.. ^^

Ok. I’ll make this post short. Need to study how to set-up a subdomain for my boss. (sigh) But y’know what, before I end this, I want to get this feeling out of me. I’m the acting webmaster in my current work but I feel useless sometimes. I need to know lots of things to be successfull in this field! Like for example, we are using Umbraco as our websites’ back-end but its installation isn’t clear to me yet. I hope I was oriented on how to start it at first, but I guess I need to study this on my own. My first boss, which is the Director and like our IT Manager at the same time, is very busy to teach me. So now, my other boss, wanted me to get things done on my own rather than having my first boss there all the time. I know he was right. I always felt his disappointment or distatisfaction everytime I had tasks from him which wasn’t done the soonest time possible. It was my bad. Yesterday, he, my second boss, gave me a little pep talk about this learn-on-your-own thing. He gave me an assignment this weekend about setting-up a subdomain. How can I do that? Would it be connected with changing a settings in Umbraco? Would I need to access our server? I already know the answer:  START STUDYING.