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Question
Book blogging is more than just reading. Who helped you set up or run your blog? Or did you do it all yourself?
Answer
I started my blog in January of 2010, and for the first year or so was using a free Livejournal blog as my homebase. At some point I “upgraded” to a free WordPress site, and then in March 2012 moved everything over to my own domain.
Prior to that I’d done everything on my own — the most difficult part of having a free Livejournal or WordPress blog is finding, installing, and tweaking themes (all of which are kind of lame). But buying a domain, finding hosting, and migrating several years’ worth of content…that would take some help.
Fortunately I work for a web design and content marketing company, and my boss was kind enough to dedicate some resources to helping me get everything set up. I’m not a developer, but I’m proud to say that I know enough HTML and can read enough CSS to adjust any theme I choose to install.
Now my biggest problem is finding a theme I like and sticking with it. 🙂
How’d you get your blog started?
Wow, you’re on a roll. That’s awesome that you have people (your boos) for help. And of course you’re a web designer-ish, so everything must be much easier to do and learn than for us non-professionals (kind of). LOL Great blog!
It was very nice of my boss to lend the resources it took to get things set up nicely. I’m much more of a writer than a designer/developer, so all the HTML I’ve learned is just from the little I’ve been exposed to it. It’s a pretty easy language to learn how to read, and I bet you could get the hang of it. 🙂
Great on your experience and on your boss helping you.
ENJOY your day!! My full answer is in the link below, but I maintain my blog myself.
Happy Hopping!!
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
My Blog Hop Answer
I’m glad to see that so many people are managing their own blogs. I think it’s good that we’re all diving in and figuring it out.
Love that you’re passing on your hard-earned knowledge to your sister! 🙂
That’s so nice of your boss to help you out with your blog. If/When I ever move my blog over to my own domain, I’m probably going to have to get my brother or my dad (who are both amazing with this stuff) to help me out.
Thanks for stopping by my BBH!
It’s always nice to have friends and family who know more than you do, isn’t it? 🙂