Category Archives: blogging

my inner geek

26 Friday Oct 2007

Posted by in blogging, computers, friends, geekiness

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Desperately trying to get in touch with my inner geek!

It’s gotta be in there somewhere! Anyhow, this is by way of an excuse and an apology for ignoring my own and everyone else’s blogs these past couple of days. I’ve been trying to set up my new website and especially the tapa blog. And I wouldn’t have got anywhere at all without the help of the very generous and knowledgeable Ashish, who has been very patiently helping me re-design the tapa blog.

I now have it doing almost everything I’d like it to do, though we’re still discussing the sidebar and what to do with it. But I must say that it’s been quite interesting and also gratifying. When Ashish sent me some files to download/upload in order to rewrite some stuff … I was actually able to do it! Wow! I felt so proud of myself.

You can have a look and tell me what you think of it so far. The footer still has to be totally re-worked, and Ashish says he can switch the icons on the sidebar for me. It’s really been quite an experience and I’m looking forward to learning even more.

Thanks again for all your help today, Ashish! f_smooch.gif

~ the new sevilla tapas blog ~

(it’s quite an improvement over this one)

national blog posting month

23 Tuesday Oct 2007

Posted by in blogging, fun stuff, life stuff

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. . . aka NaBloPoMo

A misnomer as it is clearly International Blog Posting Month. In any case, I’ve just signed up (eep!) after seeing this over on alejna’s blog. Which means that during the month of November I am committed to writing one blog post a day. I reckon I post about 4-5 times a week on average so a few more shouldn’t be too difficult. And now watch me suddenly get total blogger’s block and end up posting a month of quizzes! 😉

There are groups you can join (or you can create one yourself) as well as discussion forums. And so, if you’d like to get in on the fun (?) then visit the NaBloPoMo website and sign up. G’wan, you know you want to . . .

looking for webhosting

18 Thursday Oct 2007

Posted by in blogging, computers

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Can anyone help with a few (probably quite stupid) questions?

I presently have hosting that was set-up by the guy who designed my clothing website. What I’d like to do is register a new domain name but I also want to hold onto the URL here at azahar natural clothing.

Would this count as two domain names? Could I get the clothing website set-up as a sub-domain, or would this be a bad idea?

I’ve been looking at BlueHost, which is recommended by WordPress and which offers the following for $6.95 US a month …

  • 300 Gigabyte Hosting Space
  • web hostingHost UNLIMITED Domains
  • 2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts
  • 3,000 GIGS of Transfer
  • SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats
  • CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
  • 2000/2002/2003 Front Page Extensions
  • Free Domain Forever
  • Free Site Builder
  • 24/7 Superb/Responsive Sales/Support

My main question is about Domain Manager, Sub-domains, Add-on domains, Parked domains and Redirects. And that question is – what are they and how do they work?

Okay, I know (I think) that the free domain provided by BlueHost will be the Domain Manager. And that is the one I would want to have registered under the new name. Is there any way of doing that as well as transfer over the clothing website without having to pay for two domain names?

And while I’m making up my mind about what to do, how can I ‘save’ my new domain name?

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stumbleupon

11 Thursday Oct 2007

Posted by in blogging, media, miscellany

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I re-stumbled upon Stumbleupon this morning . . .

I actually signed up there last July but never got around to doing anything with it, mostly because I wasn’t keen on having another toolbar on my page. But today I had another look at it after I found a ‘referrer’ coming from there, and it looks like it could be fun. Like yeah, as if I don’t already spend too much time online. f_whistle.gif

Anyhow, one of the first things I stumbled upon was this great web-radio thing called Musicovery … which now means that I’m going to have to attach some proper speakers to SB. But some of the music there is fab!

So I’m still quite a Stumbleupon novice. Can anyone give me any tips on how best to use it? Or even how you use it and what your experiences there have been like?

My Stumbleupon name is azaharSevilla.

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