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June 10, 2004
New Site
Well I have been considering moving from TypePad to my own hosting service for quite some time, and now I am finally doing it. I have 2 other blogs to move over (which I hope to accomplish by the end of the month) and then the old one will be no more. During that time I will of course continue to post new content here and work on improving the site. I have a load of new features planned. I am going to add a forum just for poker bloggers (and of course their loyal readers) and a moblog, so you can see what I see when I travel.
The 9 months or so I have been with TypePad have given me a great introduction into the world of blogging. It is truly one giant community, and for someone just starting out who wants an entirely text based blog I would highly recommend it. They are fairly generous with storage space and bandwidth, and require no knowledge of web developing to use. Plus their Recently Updated lists give you some exposure (to humans and to Google) and will
I am now switching to a new hosting service and am going to use MovableType. This is the program TypePad was based on, though now I have much more control over all of it. Finally all of the time I spent learning how to create a cascading style sheet will pay off! I imagine at some point after I finish migrating I will use my new power to tweak the layout until it looks tighter than any other blog on the planet. I am hosting the whole thing on ProHosters, which is the best hosting service I have ever used (and I have used many) because of their incredible support. They will do things for you (like install Movable Type if you are too ignorant to do it yourself) that other companies will laugh at. One time on an old site I hosted there they even took a look at a PHP script I had made and helped me debug it.
So if you are a regular reader (and I now have hundreds of them) let me know what you think of any changes that pop up. There really haven’t been much yet but there will. I enjoy my reader feedback (my girlfriend laughs when I tell her I am answering fan mail) so keep it coming.
Posted by themaroon at June 10, 2004 7:38 AM
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