VersaQuill

The VersaQuill blog is migrating to http://www.VersaQuill.com/blog2 . Hosting it on my own domain rather than WordPress gives me more options: I can use Adsense and Amazon links, for instance.

A few tips for others migrating WordPress files

Exporting the published posts turned out to be the easiest part of the migration. The most frustrating part was tweaking the template. Rubric (the template used here) isn’t available if your blog isn’t hosted on WordPress. I spent hour after frustrated hour tweaking another template and seeing no results. Eventually I discovered that it wasn’t my CSS stylesheet skills that were the problem, but the fact that my browser (Google Chrome) was storing an image in the cache, and not refreshing even when I tried to force it via Ctrl F5 or emptied the cache from the Chrome toolbar. When I came back to the new blog site after a couple hours, the changes appeared.

Anybody know a solution? The work-around is having the patience and self-discipline to go do something else for a couple hours, rather than trying to finish the template tweaking all at once. But I prefer instant gratification in my web programming.

Incidentally, as the best source for novices on CSS for WordPress, I recommend http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/graphicalcss/

Hope you join me on the new blog! Anyone who has signed up at this blog will be subscribed at the new one.