I'm Sure You've Noticed the Changes!
For over a year now, I've been posting my blogs twice, once to Blogger and once to the regular .html page in The ComputerZone. Recently, I've been looking for some way to put the blogs on an RSS feed and improve the page design. My first impulses were to acquire some kind of software that would let me build my own RSS feed and to spend the time redesigning my blog pages. But I realized late last night (and it's 2 a.m. so it was last night, now) that all I needed to do to consolidate operations, get a better page design, and generate a RSS feed was to consolidate all my blogging onto Blogger. So, for now, I'm posting my blogs to Blogger.com while hosting the files on my website.
The only risk I can see with this is having to rehost everything and do the work I just avoided if Blogger goes belly up or becomes too expensive to use. I write my first drafts in Microsoft Word and then copy them to the web, so all is not lost if Blogger decides they don't like me or my ISP's webserver loses all my files. For now, this seems like a pretty good set-up; but you, my dear readers, are the utlimate judges of that. Drop me a line (andy@theandyzone.com) or add a comment (the blogging page is enabled for that) if you there's something you like or something you don't.
The RSS feed is pretty cool, but in Safari some of the line spacing is dorked up. I don't see a good way to fix that right now, so pardon the white space. If I change the spacing in my text to make the RSS feed look right, the webpage gets messed up. Hopefully, what I'm seeing is an RSS bug in Safari and will get straightened out soon.
I'll be working over the next week to catch up the archives, so just hang on if there is an old blog you can't find right now. If you're coming in from a search engine and you're looking for a blog referencing some troubleshooting, e-mail me and I'll send the text to you. Otherwise, hang in; and I hope we all find the changes work for the better.
I'm going to move my "The Writing Life" blog to Blogger, too, over the next week. I'm considering moving "Andy's Blog" to this format as well but may not since the nature of that blog is so controversial and I want to avoid any problems with censorship. I'll post a note here about that once I've made a decision.
Thanks for dropping by, and come back again!
The only risk I can see with this is having to rehost everything and do the work I just avoided if Blogger goes belly up or becomes too expensive to use. I write my first drafts in Microsoft Word and then copy them to the web, so all is not lost if Blogger decides they don't like me or my ISP's webserver loses all my files. For now, this seems like a pretty good set-up; but you, my dear readers, are the utlimate judges of that. Drop me a line (andy@theandyzone.com) or add a comment (the blogging page is enabled for that) if you there's something you like or something you don't.
The RSS feed is pretty cool, but in Safari some of the line spacing is dorked up. I don't see a good way to fix that right now, so pardon the white space. If I change the spacing in my text to make the RSS feed look right, the webpage gets messed up. Hopefully, what I'm seeing is an RSS bug in Safari and will get straightened out soon.
I'll be working over the next week to catch up the archives, so just hang on if there is an old blog you can't find right now. If you're coming in from a search engine and you're looking for a blog referencing some troubleshooting, e-mail me and I'll send the text to you. Otherwise, hang in; and I hope we all find the changes work for the better.
I'm going to move my "The Writing Life" blog to Blogger, too, over the next week. I'm considering moving "Andy's Blog" to this format as well but may not since the nature of that blog is so controversial and I want to avoid any problems with censorship. I'll post a note here about that once I've made a decision.
Thanks for dropping by, and come back again!
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