Comments on: 6 Steps to a Better Blog – Registering a Domain

By: Hal Brown

Hal Brown — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:13:52 +0000

Thanks Karen. You're most welcome.

By: Hal Brown

Hal Brown — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:13:23 +0000

I believe it was on the intro page.

By: Karen Black

Karen Black — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:12:08 +0000

Thank you for this very helpful series.

By: missy

missy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:56:45 +0000

I thought I put a lengthy comment on here yesterday – did I not?

By: Hal Brown

Hal Brown — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:23:47 +0000

Answered personally. I hope this works for you ileane.

By: ileane

ileane — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:43:44 +0000

Hal, Sorry for the confusion. She has a WordPress.com blog and now she wants to move it to a self-hosted WordPress blog. She has her domain name already thebondgurl.com and she paid for hosting with 1and1 but doesn't know how to import her posts from the .com blog to the self-hosted one. I hope that makes the question more clear now. Thank you.

By: Hal Brown

Hal Brown — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:43:56 +0000

Thanks for the comment ileane. First, GoDaddy was not always a 'not so great' host. I'll get into that in the next part, about how to choose a host. There is a lot to cover with that, as well as a lot of controversy. What I can give you is the benefit of my experience with a lot of hosts.

I'm not sure I understand about your daughter. She wants to move her blog *from* 1and1 to Wordpress? Or the other way around? If she is moving from 1and1 it won't be any different than any other host. I can't do it in a comment, but moving from one host to another is doable. Bear with me and I'll explain how that is done later in this project. One point to remember, just because Wordpress does not recommend a host doesn't mean that host won't work. If Wordpress is running on a host then obviously it will work. Separate Wordpress the software from Wordpress the web site. Two different things.

I hope that makes sense and helps.

By: ileane

ileane — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:22:37 +0000

Hal,
This is a great read packed with valuable info.
I hear a lot of complaints in the forums about GoDaddy's hosting. It must be kinda weird having a "dual-brand" personality. Good registrar - awful host.
I hope that at some point during this series you will address importing a blog from a free service to a self hosted domain. My daughter wanted to import her WordPress.com blog but she has hosting with 1and1. "Mommy" couldn't help her with the transition because 1and1 is not one of the hosts recommended by WordPress (she didn't tell me until it was too late).

I mentioned earlier that I lost the original comment while I was at work. IE7 and Disqus do not talk to one another - when you hit submit a transparent black haze takes over the entire window that resembles a cosmic black hole. lol

I hope I didn't forget anything that I wanted to say, if I think of something, I'll tweet you.

Thanks.

I look forward to the next installment.

By: Hal Brown

Hal Brown — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:38:57 +0000

Thanks Yogesh. Knowing I'm helping someone makes this a whole lot more fun to do.

By: Yogesh Mankani

Yogesh Mankani — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:04:04 +0000

Wow..Thanks, looking for another part of the series.Told you I am not going to miss any..Great work you are doing for new bloggers :)