In My Books

I'm testing out the Qumana blog editorhere and attemtpting to cross post to my BookLover blogas well as my WordPress hosted blogsince my InMyBooksWP hosted on Yahoo server is down. AND it appearsI'm not the only one. My IT colleague at work actually advised me to select another host, just not Yahoo — he hasn't heard great things about their web hosting services.  I should heed that warning.

Yep, it's been a tumultous journey to say the least. Since last Tuesday, I've been trying to set up a WordPress blog on Yahoo, since I already have a Yahoo ID, and I've read that the partnership with WP allows WP user to easily add several tools such as a built in Flickralbum, and several other goodies that come with activating a WP blog on Y! Selected a few themes (see below) and finally settled on the Narnia theme. Then, disaster struck when I tried to import my posts from Blogger but couldn't.  I trawled the support forums and tried various methods and suggestions, reading and re-reading the installation instructions over and over and over. I was up at it for two night straight trying all kinds of tricks to get this done.

I was ready to tear my hair out, when I suddenly decided to test out the import tool by setting up one hosted on WordPress.com, and so I did. The posts imported beautifully, I'll just have to set up the links and bookmarks. Then it hit on me that I can import the RSS feeds from this or even the blogger posts into my Yahoo-hosted one. I did that on Sunday late morning but the comments and the posts were a mess — everthing were thrown into a mix altogether. And the comments were imported as individual posts, divorced from the posts they were supposed to be 'married' to.

So, last night I trawled the forums again to find a solution, but having not much sleep the previous night, I had to call it the day after tweaking the design template and achieved the results I was after.

So, I came back home early, meaning before 7.15pm so I could settled the kids in earlier and start working on the problems, only to have the server giving me problems. If this thing works, I'm going to retain my Blogger blog, sinc eit's so easy to work with, limited in functions as it is.  But at this stage, I have more faith in Google technology than Yahoo.

It seems I may have to start looking for another host for my domain. But that's another post I guess.

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