Moving Home
So I did it.
I made a choice and found a new home for my blog. I went with afmu in the end. The expense wasn't too great, the learning curve was perhaps the hardest part as I tried to find out about transferring files and finding a free up-loader that was within my capabilities.
So here I am, with no spell checker! I tried to install two different plug-ins, one that I couldn't get to work in any way shape or form and one that seems to be incompatible with the version of Wordpress that I have installed. I guess the easiest thing for me to do would be to test out my posts in "Outlook" first, that should help me avoid too many calamities, but I will have to give that a try another time, else it will make this post a little redundant in the main!
I was a little dissapointed that there was no way to import my blogs from the freebie version, at least no way that I could find, but a quick bit of "copy and paste" sorted that out.
Anyways, I managed to install Wordpress on my server, and I managed to find the same theme that I had previously and get that set up too, not bad work for one weekend.
Well, not for me anyways.
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Hey Steve,
I didn’t see the previous comments about hosting – presumably they were on an earleir host.
Did you try blogger.com/ blogspot.com? I host my blog there (theblogattheendof.blogspot.com) and it doesn’t cost me anything. Also it’s now owned by Google.
Sounds like you’re using Internet Explorer. Try this on for size and see what you think. Download and install Firefox 2 and use that for writing your posts (I assume you’ve been using the editor built into WordPress). Firefox 2 has built in in-line spell checking that works everywhere including the editor in WordPress. Saves my rear end from my usual occasional bad spelling. If you like the browser, there’s an extension you can install called “Performancing for Firefox” (PFF) that adds a blog editor right into the browser that the spell checker works in also and gives you more options than WordPress’s offering.
And if you don’t like it, you can always get rid of it but me…I swear by it.
Much luck and thanks for the pingback to my blog.