I have so many hats on right now i can barely keep my head up somedays.Īs i’ve mentioned, i was comparing iWeb to RapidWeaver and eventually decided to take the plunge and switch over to RapidWeaver. The “ Publish Site” ability build into RapidWeaver is one of my favorites – a simple thing really, but it removes those extra steps of exporting to a file and the need for a FTP app to upload your changes to your site, and anything that saves me time and effort is, to paraphrase that former jailbird martha, a good thing.įeel free to nose around and check out the BLOG ARCHIVES and let me know what you think, i’m always up for good constructive criticism, and yeah i know i need to change the Titlebar, i just have to get my creative hat on for a bit and create the new one. Now that all the data is in place i can spend a bit of time tweaking it, but it shouldn’t be nearly as difficult exercise as what is already done. I have to say, i’m pretty pleased with the results. I’ve been blogging for a couple of years now and wanted to keep all the entries available so with the help of a lot of coffee and a bag of candy i muddled through. It was an arduous experience, but i wanted to make the switch complete, so i muddled through the monotonous task of copy-clipping the text, the images, etc and reformatting to try to match the original layouts. Well,… i finished the importing and recreating of all my old blogs on the weekend. Time will tell, as i seem to be a bit of a cyber-nomad when it comes to my web presence, thankfully its much easier to pack up virtually and relocate or change – no boxes or moving trucks involved and i don’t have to bribe friends with pizza and beer to get help. It was good before, for the time i did it, it made sense and i liked it, but as with anything a fresh coat of virtual paint on your website can revitalize it and possibly renew interest, or as with a house, make you not want to move just yet. I’m not big on change for changes sake, but i am taking the time to tweak the layout, the info, and the entries a bit as the merging occurs. Even if I had not done that, its a simple process to copy the images from the other blogsite and insert them into this one. Most of the entires worked fine, some were missing images or tags, but nothing so far that i couldn’t remedy, i’m a pack rat when it comes to digital information and had retained many of the images used in the posts just-in-case. I had already imported some of my other WordPress blog entries (yes, another blogsite -that’s 3, and then blogger was the forth) into the Blogger account prior to using RapidBlog and manually syncing it to the Blogger account, which resulted in a number of duplicate blog entries when i imported into the. This plug-in gives you the ability to blog from anywhere using a Blogger account (once its all set up that is.) The nice thing about this was that my WordPress site ( in case you lost track) has the option to import from a blogger account built into it. A little poking around on the web pointed me to a plug-in for RapidWeaver called RapidBlog. WordPress has the ability to import a lot of information in various formats from numerous other blogging programs, but not one specifically for importing the info from RapidWeaver. Part of the problem was trying to get all my old posts from the website which was recently redone with RapidWeaver into the website which is created with WordPress. By that i mean, they were either dealing with issues specific to the blog taken from or not interesting enough to be part of the mass merging of entries. Many of my musings were simply the same posts on different sites, so i knew there would be some duplicates to be weeded out, and also a few that were really not (to quote Elaine from Seinfield) “spongeworthy”. Figuring out how to accomplish the task of merging all my entries and pages into one “blogsite”. With this decision came the tough part of the process. For a while now, I have been trying to figure out if I wanted to maintain more than one website/blog and recently came to the conclusion it would be better to concentrate on one instead of spreading myself (and my musings) out across numerous sites or blogs.
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