Have to make a blog? Need help...

I have to make a blog for one of my classes and I have no clue what I'm doing. I spent a bunch of money buying and hosting a site on godaddy and then installing wordpress. I don't even think wordpress did anything because it still looks the same and I can't find anyway to allow user comments. I also make the whole design of the page I want and then when you preview the site, the whole thing appears in a stupid scroll box instead of just being on the page like normal. It's driving me insane. I'm going to be getting graded on it, so I want a blog that is simple and looks nice, just one front page where I can continually add posts. I don't want to spend anymore money.

WordPress is it's own world of pain. I've dabbled in it in the past before, but it requires it's own level of expertise to really understand.

 

Blogger.com, from what I remember, was easier to work with.

What Phil said. I've used both. Wordpress is overkill for just about any application you could use it for. Blogger is much easier. And for a school assignment where I'm guessing it's the writing that they care about, setting up a Blogger account with all the frills you need is much easier.

WordPress is perfect if you (a) know it well and (b) are looking for complete control, but it's very, very difficult to master.

WordPress is perfect if you (a) know it well and (b) are looking for complete control, but it's very, very difficult to master.

I'm going to start calling my wife WordPress.

I'm going to start calling my wife WordPress.

 

I hope that doesn't make her start calling you BlueBalls.

:rofl:

Weebly is another good option.

Ok thanks for the advice everyone. I have it up and running on blogger. Kind of pissed that I spent money on the other thing. Is there any way I can make my original domain name redirect to this blog now? I would rather not have blogspot in the web address because it takes away from credibility a bit I think. The goal of the assignment is to get as many views and comments as we can.

Ok thanks for the advice everyone. I have it up and running on blogger. Kind of pissed that I spent money on the other thing. Is there any way I can make my original domain name redirect to this blog now? I would rather not have blogspot in the web address because it takes away from credibility a bit I think. The goal of the assignment is to get as many views and comments as we can.

 

You can set that up in blogger if memory serves. I think they'll tell you what to set your name servers as. If you can't figure it out post here and I'll see how I did it for you tomorrow.

I think I've got it. I went to godaddy and set it to redirect from there. It says it could take 24 hours to work so I'll have to wait.

 

If someone doesn't mind visiting the site to make sure it's working, not sure if it's just working for my IP address. I'll probably be asking people to check it out in the next few days and leave comments since that's what gets me a good grade, but I'm not worried about that yet. If anyone wants to comment now then feel free. It's a hockey prospect blog.

 

http://hockeyphenoms.blogspot.com/

Hope any of our comments help although i think you did a great job

Thanks. I need to make like 12 posts by Tuesday, so I've got may work cut out for me. Comments and views will always help, but I need to get more content up before I worry about it.

I think I've got it. I went to godaddy and set it to redirect from there. It says it could take 24 hours to work so I'll have to wait.

 

If someone doesn't mind visiting the site to make sure it's working, not sure if it's just working for my IP address. I'll probably be asking people to check it out in the next few days and leave comments since that's what gets me a good grade, but I'm not worried about that yet. If anyone wants to comment now then feel free. It's a hockey prospect blog.

 

http://hockeyphenoms.blogspot.com/

 

Redirect will let someone put in your domain name and it will send them to your blog but it won't keep your domain name showing all the time I don't think.

I think I've got it. I went to godaddy and set it to redirect from there. It says it could take 24 hours to work so I'll have to wait.

 

If someone doesn't mind visiting the site to make sure it's working, not sure if it's just working for my IP address. I'll probably be asking people to check it out in the next few days and leave comments since that's what gets me a good grade, but I'm not worried about that yet. If anyone wants to comment now then feel free. It's a hockey prospect blog.

 

http://hockeyphenoms.blogspot.com/

 

Looks good on mobile device.

 

Shouldn't you have written about something you're more familiar with?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just kidding!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kinda.

Redirect will let someone put in your domain name and it will send them to your blog but it won't keep your domain name showing all the time I don't think.

 

That might be ok, I'll have to look into it.

Looks good on mobile device.

 

Shouldn't you have written about something you're more familiar with?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just kidding!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kinda.

 

:D

The answer to changing your domain is here, Patrick:

 

http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1233381&page=ts.cs

The answer to changing your domain is here, Patrick:

 

http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1233381&page=ts.cs

 

Yeah I tried that. It redirects to hockeyphenoms.com which is the domain I bought, but that's the address of the original one that I couldn't figure out and gave up on. It doesn't seem to move the blog to there, it just redirects.

It's not that big of a deal anyway. If I can get the godaddy one to redirect, which I think will work, I don't care if it displays with the "blogspot" in address.

I'm going to start calling my wife WordPress.

 

:rofl:

 

join the club

Yeah I tried that. It redirects to hockeyphenoms.com which is the domain I bought, but that's the address of the original one that I couldn't figure out and gave up on. It doesn't seem to move the blog to there, it just redirects.

 

You know that after you make those changes both in blogger and in the DNS at GoDaddy, it takes time before it works. Until the switch "propagates" you'll see the old site. Once it is done propagating, you'd see the new one.

 

Here's an example of a blog site that I haven't updated in for ever. I used a subdomain of blog.mydomain.com because mydomain.com was a main site with the blog being a part of it, but the process is similar:

 

http://blog.jerseyseen.com/

 

I think it masks it better than if you use a redirect.

Ok this thing is due tomorrow, so if anybody wants to view or comment on anything then it would help me out, especially comments. Will rep later for it. Thanks. http://hockeyphenoms.blogspot.com/

 

Twitter followers help too.

Good post about the Frozen Four prospects.

Good post about the Frozen Four prospects.

 

Thanks, I thought so but it has the least hits other than the one I just put up. The Enforcer Dman one was the most.