It`s a great brouhaha! I`m still awake. It`s almost 02:20AM. Yesterday, I canceled a self-hosting in hopes of using the WordPress.ORG administration panel. But I told that support I didn`t know what I was doing because the set-up was too technical. I received my emails to the effect almost immediately.
Then in a few minutes, I signed up with a local hosting service for 3-months at a low price of $5.98. The price will be slightly more than double per month (after three months) but it is worth the setup. My goal was to have that `static` website up and running mainly for informational purposes on orgone (or orgonite) related supplies and devices but also for linking back to my WordPress.COM blogs.
I preferred the ease of the `Site Solution` tool over the `SiteBuilder` tool and definitely don`t know anything about using the `FrontPage` tool. The `Starter Web Page Wizard` tool worked for my FREE Yahoo! GeoCities site but for whatever reason the `PageBuilder` tool got stuck building this small house forever.
Anyway, I used the boring but clean looking `Site Design` called `Riverside` of light blue and brown. I`ve finished entering the `text` information for the `Home` page and have the `About site`, `Contact`, `Service`, `Links` and `Photos` to finish. I may try the `SiteBuilder` tool later but so far this one works fine.
I learned how to create a sub-directory called `blog` and how to link a subdomain, too. I then activated `this open-source personal publishing system to create a sophisticated blog on your site.` Unfortunately, the system defaulted to a same subdirectory called `blog`. But since one was already created out of my experimentation, the pages and software tools were saved to `blog1` instead.
So I had to delete both sub-directory and redo the WordPress Activation, which is now under `blog`. I`ll have to wait 72 hours because my domain name is pending; since I just signed up for self-hosting a site yesterday.
I hope this one will last more than 15 days from my first self-hosting sign up on 09/11/2008. I don`t know if I`ll be providing `services` or selling `products`. But one of the plug-ins was a working `PayPal` button, which I could designate as donation.
Again, I`m jealous at some of the other websites and how their templates are unique. The basics are there; it is just what is my target audience and how to keep them `piqued` or at least interested because my `stats` here at WordPress.COM is dwindling.
I`m feeling empty, unemployed, underutilized but hopefully distracted `to do` something different – learning how to build my first self hosting website via Yahoo! I`ve been check the `stats` for my FREE Yahoo! GeoCities site and it`s slow, too. Waaahhh!
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