OneAndOneIs2

Thu, Nov 15, 2007

You're a serious blogger when...

1. You have your own domain name

I didn't used to consider this one THAT important, until I started spending a lot of time in places that have unreasonable firewalls that lock out anything with "wordpress" or "blogger" in the URL.

2. You host your own blog

Kind of an extension of point 1, but when I first started out, I was using blogger to create the blog, even though it was hosted on my own server. Naturally, this meant that if blogger went down, my blog was still available, but not update-able. Having all the PHP and SQL sitting on your own webhost might seem like overkill, but it puts you into full control of every aspect of your blog.

3. You have a favicon

This is still one of those thing I think every website should have. If you look at the address bar when you're looking at the average wordpress.com blog, it will have the [Wordpress] icon in it.

*yawn*

If you look at mine, it has my own personal icon in it. Far more distinctive :o)

...

A bit of a pointless post, really.. it was inspired by my inability to read some blogs, except via their RSS feeds aggregated by MagpieRSS onto my own website, during the day. A nifty feature of b2evolution that would be nice on some other blogs is an RSS feed for comments as well...

Until I can figure out a way to get SSH through the firewalls, anyway ;o)

5 comments • Categories: Omni, Technology

Comments:

Comment from: hari [Member]

· http://hari.literaryforums.org

I'm sure WP has a feed for comments as well. Well, in any case, I use b2evolution now (as I'm sure you're aware) but I use 2.1.0 beta.

You should upgrade from 1.9 to 1.10 at least to keep up with security fixes.

Permalink 15/11/07 @ 13:36

Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/

Upgrading is something I like to keep for days when I can spare a good whack of time to fix the things it breaks - I've only had one BAD upgrade, but there's always been little niggles I don't like leaving unfixed...

Permalink 15/11/07 @ 14:08

Comment from: hari [Member]

· http://hari.literaryforums.org

Yes, upgrading b2evolution isn't exactly a walk in the park. The new version also changes templating so drastically that you're better off writing your template from scratch...

But it's still better to upgrade to 1.10.3 as it does fix some security issues (I think). 1.10.3 is considered "stable" at present.

Permalink 15/11/07 @ 14:14

Comment from: Chloé [Visitor]

· http://chloesbubbles.blogspot.com/

Who said I was pretending to have a serious blog?

Well OK. When I think I really really want to keep chloesbubbles, which I am thoroughly reconsidering right now, I'll buy the domain name and then I'll host it on my own server, and it will have lots of fancy things like a favicon and a real design and will be powered by dotclear because I love dotclear and the dotclear community and it's open source and I already have one (French) blog with dotclear so I know my way, but clearly, I don't know how easy to use it is for English speakers, even though I promised I was going to invest myself more in the translation of all these wonderful how-tos and so on and never did.

Yes you can breathe now.

Permalink 15/11/07 @ 16:30

Comment from: Ginny [Visitor]

· http://iamgenevieve.wordpress.com

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Geek :-)

Permalink 15/11/07 @ 20:54