"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/08/2016 at 12:20 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/08/2016 at 12:20 • Filed to: None | 1
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Now that I’m nearing a full year of
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posts, I want to find a way to get them off Kinja and post them some other way, especially if Hulk Hogan wins his lawsuit and Gawker goes belly up. And really, I have no idea how it all works. Can anybody recommend a blogging software that will support what I’ve been doing, mainly twice-weekly posts with pictures and formatted text? I mean, I guess it’s not really a blog in that I’m not going to be assailing the world with the boring minutiae of my life. Fewer people would read that than read my aviation stuff.
TheHondaBro
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 12:24 |
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Narrated videos on YouTube?
CALUSA
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 12:25 |
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Wordpress, Tumblr...?
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ttyymmnn
> TheHondaBro
03/08/2016 at 12:26 |
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Nobody wants to hear me talk.
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ttyymmnn
> CALUSA
03/08/2016 at 12:26 |
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No idea. I have no experience with this sort of thing at all.
Xyl0c41n3
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 12:28 |
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Wordpress offers a decent blogging platform. There’s free and paid versions of it. Plus, it comes with tons of user-created plug-ins so you can customize it however you want: themes, widgets, etc.
It’s pretty easy to post and the post editor is intuitive. They regularly publish platform updates, and you can find all the help you need for pretty much any question you have via google or youtube search.
StingrayJake
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 12:30 |
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Blogger and Wordpress are probably the most popular. They also have a fair amount of customization (especially if you know how to code) so you can really make the page your own rather than being a slave to Kinja style.
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ttyymmnn
> StingrayJake
03/08/2016 at 12:30 |
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especially if you know how to code
Yeah, about that....
Thanks
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ttyymmnn
> Xyl0c41n3
03/08/2016 at 12:31 |
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Thanks. I’ll check it out.
Slant6
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 12:31 |
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Do you have them all saved offline/ on a cloud somewhere?
I’d gladly archive them into a WordPress for you, doesn’t take much time. I could also do the page graphics. I’m an Industrial design student that does graphic design on the side.
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ttyymmnn
> Slant6
03/08/2016 at 12:36 |
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That’s a very generous offer, and I will keep it in mind. I think, though, that it’s the sort of thing I ought to figure out how to do myself.
Since I was using Firefox for a long time, I was keeping text/photo drafts of each post in my Mail drafts folder (crazy, I know), but with FF constantly crashing I had to do something, and it was working. But I was planning on spending some time, maybe next week during spring break, to copy all of the posts off of Kinja and into something else to save them offline. Suggestions?
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CALUSA
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 12:36 |
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I know, but you can post text with pictures on Wordpress/ Tumblr. Maybe those 2 are an option for you!
Birddog
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 12:37 |
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Try reaching out to Mikaelvroom. He did this with the build of his 5.0 powered BMW.
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ttyymmnn
> Birddog
03/08/2016 at 12:37 |
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Thanks for the tip.
Cé hé sin
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 12:40 |
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But you could do the background music!
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Xyl0c41n3
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 12:42 |
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You don’t have to know how to code to use Wordpress, though. Luckily, there are literally thousands of other people out there who already use the platform, and many of them know how to code, so oftentimes you’ll find they’ve already done the legwork for you. It usually ends up being that all you have to do is install their plug-in or copy/paste a line of code somewhere, and voila! you have some cool little thing that would’ve taken forever to figure out on your own.
We use Wordpress at work, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve googled “how to do ‘X’ in wordpress” and found helpful, easy-to-understand answers quickly.
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Slant6
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 12:44 |
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You could save them all on Google Drive. That way you could share them with other people if you ever had someone help you contributing or had someone to come in for proofreading. But storing them in Drive is easy, and the entire collection could be downloaded as a zip file if you ever wanted to move them offline.
And WordPress isn’t that difficult. It’s kinda just like kinja except you have more options. But as far as posts go it’s almost identical.
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Birddog
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 12:47 |
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No problem. I forgot to leave a link to his website.
http://www.mikaelvroom.com/?page_id=37
RyanFrew
> Xyl0c41n3
03/08/2016 at 12:49 |
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there are literally
thousands
millions of people out there who already use the platform
FTFY. Not trying to be nitpicky - totally agree with you and want to emphasize how good WP is.
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RyanFrew
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 12:53 |
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Just throwing one more vote out there for Wordpress, because it’s the right answer. Here are the reasons, distilled, but in no particular order:
No coding ability necessary
Free. Cheap to upgrade if you want more.
Super flexible and powerful
Tons of resources out there to learn about it or to pay for improvements
Easy to migrate to/from
Lots of templates give you the ability to get the look you’re going for
Google Analytics (if you go self-hosted) will give you all the answers you’re looking for about traffic that Kinja never gave you
Disqus commenting system is better than Kinja
Everyone else is saying WP for a reason ;)
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Xyl0c41n3
> RyanFrew
03/08/2016 at 12:53 |
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I actually had it as millions initially. But, then I was too lazy to look up the actual user numbers, so I changed it to thousands because it’s still technically correct: millions are made up of many thousands. ^_~
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ttyymmnn
> RyanFrew
03/08/2016 at 12:59 |
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Now that I think of it, I actually have a little experience with WP since I’ve been adding galleries of photos to our local soccer association’s website, and they are using WP. I understand the hierarchy of the pages, I just need to figure out how to make it look the way I want.
What about hosting the site?
R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 13:02 |
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^This is me trying to play the division this morning
William Byrd
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 13:05 |
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+1 on WordPress. We use it as the back end for Right Foot Down. Easy to use, I’ve built a couple of quick blog sites with it.
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ttyymmnn
> R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet
03/08/2016 at 13:07 |
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I saw this video today and thought of you.
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RyanFrew
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 14:07 |
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hosting the site would mean the difference between tymmnn.com and tymmnn.wordpress.com. Further, you could have an email address at the site, install any WP theme you choose, install google analytics and Disqus, among other things. Figure the expense to be ~$100/year
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RyanFrew
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 14:08 |
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FYI - that’s a Wordpress site, although not a particularly pretty one.
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ttyymmnn
> RyanFrew
03/08/2016 at 14:12 |
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Can you create a WP site and host it elsewhere?
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RyanFrew
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 14:19 |
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If that’s the order you want to go, sure.
I’ve probably built about 20 websites on WordPress so far. Simplest move, if you don’t mind the small cash outlay, is to go to GoDaddy (or similar), buy a domain name/hosting, and then install WordPress. Every decent hosting site will provide the steps to add WordPress. Super easy. I can vouch for the simplicity on GoDaddy for sure.
functionoverfashion
> ttyymmnn
03/08/2016 at 15:36 |
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I’m on the Wordpress bandwagon, fully. I’ve used it a lot and created many sites on it. My current work is at a University whose entire website is on Wordpress.
I like 1and1.com for hosting, it’s also fairly user-friendly (like GoDaddy), it’s competitively priced, and just a more professional interface, in my opinion.
A bit of advice if you go the WP route: set up your site (just the bare minimum) and spend a lot of time up front deciding on a theme you like, that allows you to do everything you want. There are lots of good free themes out there, and even more good ones that cost a little. Changing themes once your posts and your structure, menus, all that is all set up - sucks. It can break your menus, formatting, image placement, CSS, layouts of posts/pages, I mean, that’s the whole idea. So, spend time playing with different themes up front.
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ttyymmnn
> functionoverfashion
03/08/2016 at 15:57 |
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Good advice. Thanks.