She hates ice cream trucks and claims to have superpowers. She's fairly nonpolitical, but I love her blog. I'm referring, of course, to Kathy Frederick's Junk Drawer. But she's not all sugar and spice. She recently bought her own domain, and even explains how she did it.According to Kathy, "Bloggers with their own domains enjoy a higher level of credibility than those who don’t. Having your own domain shows you’re putting time into your blog and want to distinguish yourself from the millions of other blogs that are created every day. A custom domain says 'I’m a serious blogger and I’m here to stay.' "
Since I can use all the credibility I can get, I decided to be a copy cat. I now I have my own domain name - LVRamblings.com.
I feel more credible already.
Whether you type in LVRamblings.com, http://www.lvramblings.com/, LVRamblings.org, http://www.lvramblings.org/, LVRamblings.info or http://www.lvramblings.info/, my blog pops up. Of course, it also will still continue to pop up under my blogspot address, too.
But I've still managed to muck things up. I'd like my new domain name to pop up as the web address instead of the blogspot. So far, every attempt has sent nearly 1,000 posts into cyberspace limbo. Being male, I refuse to ask Kathy or her pal, the Blog Bloke, for help.
I will continue to tinker over the holiday. If you attempt to log on and are sent to some gay porn site of guys in leather that look a lot like me, pay no attention.
6 comments:
no blog, just a web site at www.kisslinger.com email me from the bottom of any of my pages there?
Bernie - Depending on who you registered the domain with - you should have an option for url masking allowing www.lvramblings.com to stay in the address bar up top.
of course a phone call to the registrar might help you out quicker...
Chris, I used godaddy, and it does have a masking option. I set it up and had everything forwarded to the blogspot addy. I don't think the masking option works on that, but there's a few other tricks.
Doesn't Blogger offer domain names for blogs?
Yes, it does. But I'm following the Kathy Frederick guide. So far it's working. I want to make sure everything is set up so that no matter what is typed in as the web addy. And I'd like lvramblings.com to be seen as the web addy up top. So far, everything has worked except for that last part. The masking, suggested by Chris, only workd on a domain I own, and I don't own blogspot. So I have to follow the BlogBloke's tutorial, and that may require some down time over the holiday.
Bernie -
If you are publishing via FTP:
1. Log into Blogger
2. Go to 'settings'
3. go to 'publishing'
4. type in the URL in the box
If you don't have FTP access to your host, this may not work. However, Blogger does give you the option for Custom Domain if you have one so this alternative may work for you especially if you don't have FTP access to through GoDaddy.
HTH,
Brian
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