Whew!
Blogging is cool, right? (Yeeeaaa!)
There are lots of folks out there saying it`s supposed to be easy and FAST to put up a blog and start writing…(I´m talking about self-hosted worpress blogs here btw…)
THEY say things like: “Just go to your cpanel and hit the “fantastico” and it`s installed in seconds…”
Well, I agree so far…
Then they continue “login, choose your blog theme (or download one) and begin to write!”
Sure sounds easy! Just go and do it!
Well, That`s bullsh*t if you ask me! (sorry `bout my tone but you`ll understand me soon…)
You know, I`ve been setting up my blog for a week and to be honest, it has been quite a pain! Well, I could`ve hired someone to desing me a cool blog and set everything up but what`s the point? I want to do stuff on my own and learn…
Okay, I didn`t want those basic templates `cause they suck if you ask me…I mean, the basic theme with gigantic blue header with white text size of an elephant on it…NO FREAKING WAY!
I searched for a ´perfect` template for hours but I didn`t found anything that matched my criteria…and besides I wanted to have my own header on my blog…so I decided to design my own theme.
I bought one pretty cool wysiwyg software and after about 3-4 hours of work I got my theme ready to roll!
I uploaded my theme and I was steamed up! Hooray, Now all I have to do is write some stuff!
Guess what?
When I loaded my blog for a first time to check it out It had some ugly looking title text standing in front of my header! I wanted to get rid of a title text and tagline! it was obvious that If I remove the description from my admin area, the problem will go away. (sigh…) What I discovered is this: If I remove the title, my blog is not search engine friendly anymore and it causes problems with rss and stuff…
…and this followed: couple of hours more work to search how to properly hide my text and tag!
oh yeah, one more thing about blogs: They don`t use html so much, they use XHTML and it`s all greek to me!
But I managed to hide the title text and stuff but then I figured out I need to have rss on my blog also…and all of these bookmarking things and I need to set up my permalinks so they don`t look like crap…
You know, It took me a whole week to set up my blog and I`m not even finished yet…But at the moment I really don`t care! I`ve done lots of work with this and I need a break!
I want to show you a really ugly photo of me freaking out so you understand better:
Yeah, that`s me Freaking out!
Sorry If I scared you but that`s how I feel right now…I really need some rest…so I can actually write some stuff on my blog…
BE WARNED: if someone is telling you “It`s easy and fast to set up a blog…”
…I say: “You can go and create a blog really fast…but this is what you`ll get: crappy looking blog with the Blue giant header!”
I don`t know how much I need to recover (No kidding, I´m exhausted…) So I better give you some FREE STUFF you can read while waiting my next post!
Okay, this is really cool stuff and you don`t need to opt-in or anything to get it!
CLICK THIS LINK AND CHECK IT OUT! (opens in a new window)
Thanks for reading and take care,
-L.O.
