FYI: Killer Hosting Deal
If you’ve ever thought about hosting your own site and getting your hands down and dirty with a custom install of WordPress goodness you may want to STOP delaying. My hosting provider (who I’m very satisfied with) sent me the message below. Check out this deal: For the rest of this month until midnight on October 31st we’ve SLASHED ANHosting price to $5.95/mo and DOUBLED the Mega Plan to 500GB of disk space and 5,000GB of bandwidth! This SCARY GOOD offering is for a LIMITED TIME ONLY. The special Halloween Mega Plan is as follows: 500GB of disk space (up from 250GB!) 5,000GB of bandwidth (up from 2,500GB!) Host 40 domains on one account (up from 20 domains!) Free domain for life! 30 day money-back guarantee Free website builder 24/7...
5 Reasons to Switch to WordPress
A few people have asked me what platform this blog is running and how I set it up. I think a lot of the readers who frequent Six O’Clock Vintage primarily use Blogger, which is why there is some curiosity about my site. This post will explain (in a scattered way) what system I use, the process of setting up the system and my reasons for switching away from Blogger. I use WordPress. It is easy, powerful and free. It also has a wonderful community of generous and talented users, many of whom supply their expertise through creating and maintaining free plugins and themes. In order to harness the full potential of WordPress you will need to host it on your own server. It is probably a good idea to demo it over at WordPress.com first, just to get an...