Useful tips and stuff that matters » ftp http://www.theusefulblog.com Tips and tricks and stuff that matters for computers, internet, and many others. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:13:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Finally I moved my blog to http://www.theusefulblog.com http://www.theusefulblog.com/post/finally-i-moved-my-blog-to-httpwwwtheusefulblogcom/ http://www.theusefulblog.com/post/finally-i-moved-my-blog-to-httpwwwtheusefulblogcom/#comments Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:40:32 +0000 angelchen1111 http://www.theusefulblog.com/2006/10/21/finally-i-moved-my-blog-to-httpwwwtheusefulblogcom/ Today I decided to use the domain theusefulblog.com for my blog and use Wordpress to host my blog instead of Blogger. I decided not to use tipspedia.info since .info domain kinda sucks. I bought a very cheap web hosting from CirtexHosting which is only $2.50 a month or $24 a year. Despite its low price, I found the service is excellent, it gives you 5000 MB Storage, 100 GB Bandwidth, PHP, CGI, MYSQL, and 5 Email / FTP Accounts in the basic plan, it’s almost never down and its support is also excellent, and it has Live Support where they answer your questions very quickly, the email support is also very fast.

After I created the host and installed WordPress on it I started to migrate the old posts from Blogger to WordPress. Because my Blogger was beta I can’t import it directly, I had to import its post’s RSS to the new blog, after importing I found the timestamp was off by seven hours I had to change them back one by one by hand, I also had to type the comments in one by one again since I don’t know how to import them from Blogger to WordPress :( . It took me about three hours to do all those…. Finally I finish migrating by putting the customization I had from Blogger to here and pick a theme for my new blog.

Right now I just don’t know how to change the top menu for this K2 style TrueBlue, the links over there are not obvious enough,topmenu.JPG

if anybody know how to make it look better please tell me about that by leaving a comment here.

Copyright © 2008
This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only.
The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digital Fingerprint:
)]]> http://www.theusefulblog.com/post/finally-i-moved-my-blog-to-httpwwwtheusefulblogcom/feed/ 0 Blogger’s bug of switching back to publishing on blogspot.com after publishing on ftp http://www.theusefulblog.com/post/bloggers-bug-of-switching-back-to-publishing-on-b/ http://www.theusefulblog.com/post/bloggers-bug-of-switching-back-to-publishing-on-b/#comments Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:24:00 +0000 angelchen1111 http://www.tipspedia.info/2006/08/26/bloggers-bug-of-switching-back-to-publishing-on-b/ Today in the morning Blogger was down, but I thought blogspot.com was also down(in reality it didn’t). Because of this an idea of publishing on ftp came up to my mind. So I changed the setting to publish over ftp and published the blog to my own computer. Surprisingly when I switch I didn’t get any warning about I might lose my hosting in the current Blog*Spot Address when I changed the setting.
After a while I realized that blogspot.com is not down and doing OK I regretted that decision and tried to switch back to Blog*Spot Address. Here comes the problem, now I can’t get my angelchen1111.blogspot.com back when I switch back, it said it’s already in use although it isn’t. I checked it and still see my blog there, nobody took it over. After that I tried to make a new blog with angelchen1111 and even tried a new account with angelchen111.blogspot.com, all those doesn’t take it back. I read the help file and now understood that my host is supposed to be released after switching to ftp and I can take it back if nobody took it over. But the host didn’t seem to be released and nobody could take it. I got tired of this and slept thinking about I might need to get a new name.blogspot.com and update all links :( .
After I wake up the solution comes, I tried to publish on Blog*Spot Address with name other than angelchen1111 and hit publish, after publishing I changed the Blog*Spot Address back to angelchen1111 and published again, Bingo! Now it worked and I finally took angelchen1111.blogspot.com back. Warning, this might not work for everybody, please don’t try it with your Blog*Spot Address that you really want to keep or you might lose it, I made a new account to do the same thing again and it FAILED, it couldn’t take back the Blog*Spot Address. Try this only if you want your Blog*Spot Address back after switching to ftp or sftp.

Here I warn you people again not to switching back and forth the method of publishing, because sometimes some strange bugs might come out and screw up your post. Think over before you switch to ftp or sftp, you might not be able to get your Blog*Spot Address back after you switch.

Copyright © 2008
This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only.
The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digital Fingerprint:
)]]> http://www.theusefulblog.com/post/bloggers-bug-of-switching-back-to-publishing-on-b/feed/ 7