Bornfamous

Planting seeds with WordPress MU

29 Nov 2009

Now that I’ve moved this site and a dozen or so others to the new server, I’ve installed WordPress MU on Bornfamous and plan to consolidate the blogs of friends, relatives and personal projects into it, so there will only be one WPMU installation to keep track of instead of eight individual WP installs. So nice!

I know I should have just moved them directly into MU instead of setting them up with new WP installs all over again, but it was a panic situation with the old server down for days, and I still wasn’t comfortable with MU.

Not there yet but there’s only one way to get there, and that’s to jump in, one blog at a time. Thanks to Andrea R for the tutorial–and many more that I haven’t gotten to yet.

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MUCH better

In: Design| Wordpress

26 Nov 2009

Betty_White-400x498

I am SO. LOVING. this theme, called Compositio, from Design Disease. [And it's free--go figure.] It’s so perfect, I don’t want to even TRY to customize it. Maybe just a logo. Or not.

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It’s about time

In: Blog

13 Nov 2009

White Desert, Egypt

It took a while, but BornFamous is finally back on the new server. I had to move the domain back to the old one until I could move all my other sites, for reasons you don’t really care about.

Anyway, it’s been an adventure. I finally learned what I’ve been avoiding for YEARS: how to export and import mySQL databases—and even how to edit RIGHT IN THE DATABASE. I wouldn’t say I have totally gotten over my database phobia, but I’ve come a long way, baby.

What a RELIEF.

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Cue Etta James music…

In: Blog

20 Oct 2009

“At laaasst… my blog has come along…”

Yep, the server was down for like, EVER, so I decided to move to a new host. Then I took a little procrasti-cation to think things over. Because what’s the point of keeping a blog if you don’t, um, BLOG any more?

So I had to ask myself WHY I don’t blog any more. It’s not that I’ve lost interest in blogging, I’ve just lost interest in personal blogging. I’ve run out of things to say about me. [Which is probably a good thing. I like to think it's a sign of late-blooming maturity. Very late.] What does interest me, much more now, is blogging itself. The nuts and bolts of setting up a blog, specifically a WordPress blog, and all the wonderful things you can do with one.

ANYWAY, all this is my way of leading up to the big announcement: BornFamous will no longer be a personal blog. But I’m not getting rid of it, no sir. I’m going to transform it into a… drum roll, please… PROFESSIONAL blog. About blogging. And WordPress. And maybe design, though as you can see, design is not my strong suit. But the focus of BornFamous will be the learning process, and sharing what I learn with you.

The personal stuff will still be here for the search engines and the curious, but I’ll be moving it off the front page soon, as I start fresh with this new direction. So. Excited!

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