Moving From Free To Hosted WordPress

OOOOh K…Here’s the latest Hosting news. I’ve gotten several readers who are on board. Now everyones pointed to two blogs..so far I haven’t had any down time. This is the old blog and this is the new blog

www.mstrismusic.com

WordPress support is closed over the weekend..so I will get it all straightened out early next week.
Musicians and anyone who wants to start a blog/site heres what I’m going through…. “MsTris’s Blog Experience 101″

I started with a free wordpress blog. It’s been working fine, but the possibilities of designing, and adding widgets was limited because free wordpress doesn’t allow java script. I found out from Sho Down over at Rock It Pro ,that I needed to have a hosted site to be in total control. I signed up with blue host because they give so much for 6.95 per month.

UNLIMITED Hosting Space (NEW!) UNLIMITED File Transfer (NEW!) Host UNLIMITED Domains!!! 2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts , SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats, CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL, 2000/2002 Front Page Extensions, Free Domain Forever!, Free Site Builder (NEW), 24/7 Superb/Responsive Sales/Support
I already owned my domain through Yahoo Domain Service, and it’s paid for the year so I didn’t want to move it….
…So I signed up to BlueHost last Friday and installed WordPress 2.5 using Bluehost’s Simple Script application. I got a lil frustrated because I couldn’t see anything but I knew I had hosting. WordPress is installed, the next step was to change Yahoo’s Dns settings to point to BlueHost. Remembering I had not designed anything at BlueHost, I changed the settings but redirected yahoo to my free wordpress(here). BlueHost support was great. They showed me how to start designing through live chat which was fast and to the point. Blue Host gave me my temporary address(an IP numerical address), and I was off to uploading my new themes. What I didn’t know is it takes anywhere from 2- 72 hours for a Dns change. So I frantically typed in my main addy to check, while using the temp addy to design on last Friday,Saturday,and Sunday.

On Monday I noticed when I logged into the temp site..the address was clearly reading mstrismusic instead of a temp IP addy… yaaay. I was excited. I exported all my files to the new address. All the post uploaded, all the links, all the pictures, and all the feeds…great. The only manual thing I had to fix were my audio and video files because the new wordpress uses slightly different codes for inserting in post. Now by Monday the sight is looking pretty good. I continued to post on the free site, and copy the post to new site. The new theme and hosted site allows me to add all the widgets and plugins I could desire. So I spent basically a week playing around with things until I was satisfied. I am now finished and nervous about changing the Yahoo redirection. Friday morning is it… I’m going totally to hosted site. I go into Yahoo and point all my Dns, A names etc to BlueHost, delete my redirecting to the free wordpress and- and- and….waaalaaaa…. lol
NOT!… Here I am with everyone still over on the free site and about 4 or 5 folks on the new site.
Today::: I’ve read in order to keep most of my traffic I have go back to yahoo, change dns to wordpress, buy a domain forward from wordpress.com for 10$ to redirect to www.mstrismusic.com, go back to yahoo, redirect back to bluehost, and then all of us will be together in one Happy www.mstrismusic.com crib….

It’s Sat., 8 days from my initial Blue Host start… and my site is pointing to two places.No Problem from BlueHost at all…so what do I do?..I write a post explaining all this, hoping that everybody will change links to www.mstrismusic.com ,and while I swap the Dns’ezzz and stuff’ezzz …..you’ll bare with me,stay posted, and continue to wordpress on with me :-)….

My two main suggestion to all who want to go the WordPress route from scratch..
1.Skip the free wordpress if you plan to have a blog that involves java scripts and adsense.
2.Set up your domain, and find hosting on a site that supports the “latest” WordPress Installation 1st.

If I had to do the whole thing again, I would have had Domain Registration, Hosting, and Blog all under BlueHost instead of all the changes.

Monday Morning Goodies…

Hey all, hope everything is going smooth. I went with BlueHost hosting for the blog and it’s been a smooth transition. Eventually I will get a custom theme, I’d like to design it myself so it will take some time. For now I’ve chosen a free one from the net. Here’s what the screen shot looks like:

There are a lot of cool themes and blogging info there. Scroll through and check em out BlogPerfume
I’ve transferred all post, and I’m adding the links today….
For todays production category I’m going to continue with a few Fruityloops Tutorials from the “Tube of You’s”…..

Rewire Reason To Fl Studio 8:
This is pretty cool and quick. I haven’t tried this yet, but it appears to be the way I read in the Fl help file ** hint hint..HELP in any application is your friend**….

FireFox CSS Editor? :-0

Who knew…Firefox has a CSS Editor tool bar.. I am sure this could help all Firefox WordPress folks…
FireFox CSS Toolbar Download

10 Blog Traffic Tips…They Work!

You notice how more and more musicians are blogging…Well I’m on here and I think Im hooked
Here are some of the steps I’ve started following to push my blog along. I am sharing tips so all who want to start blogging stay tuned…producers,emcees, every body join in…The following article is by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor.

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

Geek Tip: Playing With Your Gmail Account

Check out this cool lil gmail tip. If you are starting your online beat business or any business online this may help keeping gmail more organized.
The + sign thing is extremely useful! Check out Geek sugar to

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