Due to changing things at PayPerPost, it has become important to have a blog on my own domain, or so 'they' say. So I paid for a year of web hosting and such, almost $90. I kept trying to figure out how to use Wordpress for doing my blog with. It is so overwhelming that I got nowhere with it. You go to read a page of information and there are so many links on that one page to go to more info pertaining to the info you are trying to make head or tail of. Pretty soon you have 20 pages open and each of them has untold numbers of links too. Finally I get too overwhelmed and feeling useless that I just shut down the computer and go to bed... even in the afternoon.
Finally I got the guys at Wordpress to upload it to my domain for me, thinking that once that was done life would be ever so much easier. I even got to make one post on it before I messed it all up. Tonight I got brave and uploaded a nice theme/template to use. I did everything the instructions said to do, and they said if I'd uploaded it correctly I would see it in the wp admin. Sure enough, it's in the wp admin., but some thing's not right. Now, instead of getting my home page when going to my URL, you get the directory list. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRR!!!
I am feeling tonight like I wasted almost $90. Like I'm not going to be able to run a blog on my own domain, so it will just sit there not being used after I paid for it. So I'm going to go to bed and forget about this for tonight. I'll see how I feel about it all tomorrow. I love my laptop, but am currently feeling like throwing it across the room. Time to 'de-stress'.
6 comments:
I'm sorry you're having so much trouble with that stuff. I'd help if I knew anything about it.
Hang in there.
PLEASE tell me you went with Bluefur for hosting???
If so, (or even if not) just send me your user name and password (if you're ok with that) and I'll see what I can do.
I'm not that great at it either - I finally paid someone to do it for me! (hehe)
i, too, got my own domain because of PPP, lol.
are you still having a hard time? I also had a hard time figuring things out(and got help from a friend who also got her own domain...)! till now, I don't touch some of the other stuffs ... too much thinking needed! lol.
I've had the same problems.
I tried everything and then gave up.
WP is not for me.
Thank you all so very much for your support. I have great news. James (a.k.a. Shadow), the fellow that, through WordPress was a sweetheart and uploaded WP to my domain, came to my rescue. He straightened out my blog and it's now working. I even have some 'stuff' posted there. I have SOooo much to learn about using WP, but hey, I learned how to use Blogspot, so eventually I will be using WordPress like a pro and looking back to now with a laugh at myself.... I hope, haha.
Stick with it, wordpress is pretty good when you get your head round it has taken me a while but it is pretty good, regards mick..
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