Go on, have a look around……..brand new spanking design !!

You like???????

I changed my web  host this week, and moved my blog over to the new host. To be honest, I have been thinking about doing this for a while, but was afraid of all the data I would lose, like pictures, and the blog design, but since my previous host lost everything all on their own, they pushed me along…….

It’s about the same as what I was paying before, but these new guys (Bluehost) are recommended by wordpress, and have 24/7 support, which I’ve actually used while setting up this whole account.

The strangest thing is that while my nameserver records were being updated, I actually had two blogs, and for a while, it was pretty random which one you saw. At home, I was getting connected to the new one, while at work, I was getting connected to the old one. Sppadic and Calabar Gal both left comments on the old blog, which is now offline, so sorry folks, but thanks for stopping by !!

Now, I’m working on the plugins that power this baby, it took a while for me to find all of them again, but I’ve got all shiny new versions, and it’s a painstaking process of activating them, making sure they don’t break the blog in any way, one by one. Most of the stuff they do can’t be seen by you guys, but you may notice one or two things over the next few days.

After that, I’ll have to rebuild my blogroll, I’ll use my RSS feeds, this will be a good opportunity to remove inactive blogs as well.

Then, it will be time to work on the design, looking for a good theme for the blog that works with my combination of plugins. It will take a few weeks, but hey, it’s fun, and I’m not complaining !!

I think I can start blogging again as well, haven’t been able to do anything sensible in a month, which is a real shame………

Hello friends…

Sadly, my blog has been on sick leave for about 2 weeks.

Due to ‘technical issues’ with my webhost, my blog went missing, and I’ve been fighting tool and nail for them to restore it from a backup. This has now been done, sadly, it appears I’ve lost TONS of data. The blog text is all intact (Thank God), but it seems that all my images are gone, my layout (which took several painful hours to design), my plugins, are all gone.

I guess the good news is that in essence, I’ve got a brand spanking new blog to play with !! But it will take a while, time which sadly, I don’t have too much of at the moment. I’ll try and resolve all technical issues before the end of the week, once that is done, then I’ll start working on the layout again, and searching for, and reinstalling plugins.

I’ll post every now and then while I’m doing this, but I reckon it will be next year before the blog is up and running to my satisfaction.