Get it? Four tidbits = one tidnybble.
First, look at what Google did to the old project page. What a gawdawful looking pile of crap. To tell the truth, I had almost forgotten about it. I ran across the new site Googling “mrhinkydink pwns you”, looking for the proxy judge page I put up last week.
Second, I have been pissed off at GoDaddy and their Tech Support Lackey “Just Jonathan” (more here). I need to pull up stakes and move on. I am seriously sick of their bullshit.
Third, as a result of that crap, I’m looking into what it takes to move a WordPress site. It turns out there’s a teensy bit more to it than just doing an export and import into a new site. If you’ve uploaded graphics, the exported links still point back to the old site and all those graphics have to exist there. That’s not too difficult to work around.
Fourth, completing the tidnybble, although I almost forgot about the old Google Pages content, I completely forgot that I had already moved the site once to WordPress.com!
So it seems the obvious solution is to bail on GoDaddy and move everything back to WordPress.
Unfortunately, although I do like WordPress-the-software (genital warts and all) I don’t like WordPress-dot-com that much.
And here we are. What an incredible pain it was moving all those pages here. It took well over three hours to cut, paste, and re-date all that old crap.
But the result was worthwhile. Unfortunately, this place has just as many infuriating idiosyncracies as BlogSpot and Google Pages.
One thing I noticed straight off was the lack of colors. If you want to go changing font colors willy nilly you have to work at it. It’s a good thing, though. People get carried away and make their sites look like crap. I suppose I can live with that.
I am slightly wanked that I can’t capitalize the titles the way I want. This e.e. cumstains crap is for the birds. If I want to shout, I’ll SHOUT.
And linebreaks! How the Hell can I get a double linebreak around here? That was bad enough on BlogSpot but I eventually got around it with a few well-placed <br>’s – which would always disappear if you toggled between html and WYSISWG mode. The trick was not toggling. No such trick here. The editor throws your <br>’s in the bit bucket.
And if you have Internet Explorer 8, get out of town. The editor jumps all over Hell. Chrome seems to be the only way to fly.
Now I have the task of going back over everything and adding tags. Not sure if I want to tackle that one quite yet.
Anyway, we’re here.
I’m transferring all the crap from Google Pages today.
I’m halfway there. Please excuse the mess.
The original Google Pages site is archived here.
