Apr 04 2008
What Is Going On Here?
This is the future home of Construction Informer. This page is was developed to explain an example of poor planning and low expectations on my part.
When I started my construction blog, The Construction Informer, I already had a domain so I just used Go-Daddy’s Quick Blogcast in conjunction with that domain. Later, as the blog got more popular and hits really started to go up, I got to thinking that it really ought to have the same domain name as its name so I bought the com, org, and net domains of Construction Informer - amazingly they weren’t taken.
Then I had to decide where to host the domain, create a blog shell and then import all previous posts to the new domain. Nothing against Go Daddy, I think they offer some value and ease of use that people need, but I wanted a more robust platform to publish from. I wanted more control and more options. I don’t know yet if I made the best choice but so far Blue Host and WordPress feel pretty good. I like the name - Word Press, it sounds kind of modern yet old and steeped in tradition. It conjures up experiences like stepping into an old-time print shop and being overcome with the smell of printer’s ink while a hunchbacked man with a visor squints over a board full of metal letters.
So I am making made a very long project of moving the blog to here. One reason was because is I know I will would loose my Google rating and it would will basically be like starting over again in a lot of ways., with the exception that I think if I do it right I can get current subscribers and readers moved over to the new domain fairly easily and painlessly without loosing any. After all, readers are what many of us do this stuff for.
So, stay tuned. Gradually The Construction Informer will move over here and be Construction Informer. Now, with the exception of a couple month’s worth of posts, the transition is complete. Those other posts will move over in the coming weeks. Moving the comments is still up in the air.
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I can feel the pain. Our blog was on typepad and we knew we had to move to wordpress to take advantage of the features and use a better address (www.seidesigngroup.com/blog) connected to our main website. We moved over with a new custom design at the end of April. It was hard work and we lost our pagerank, but hope to get it back up next time Google updates the ranking. Overall, we are very pleased with Wordpress, and wish we had done it sooner.