The warm reception I had yesterday for my poem Chains of Blindness was most welcome. And timely, too, for I’ve been worriting away at getting my old on-line poems and stories back on the net after closing down the oldgreypoet website (it’d become too complicated and time-consuming to maintain).
So a great deal of my time yesterday was spent in an attempt to replicate one of my on-line poetry chapbooks–the one containing Chains of Blindness–in a new wordpress.com blog. Sad to say, if it’s possible, the result is so far away from the original that I can’t bear it.
The chapbooks are all in standard html, and I seem to remember verifying them against the last pre-xml standard, so all I need is space. I can still create a standard html website without difficulty or brain-pain.
Complicated. And a little frightening. There’s plenty of ‘free’ web hosting services about but there’s something about them I don’t like. ’Cheap’ web hosting services abound, too, and as you’d expect, you get what you pay for. The problem is in finding out precisely what that what is.
I bet you know what’s coming now? Yup. You’re right. Hey ho.
I’ll keep whittling away at the problem till I get it done, and have a poet’s website again. Nice project for the summer.
The journal/blog will stay where it is, as it is. I can’t be doing with learning scripting languages all over again.
I find it edifying that we can read cuniform script easier than some of our old computer constructs.
This made me realize how badly I need to organize all the space I have out there and domains I’ve registered and HTML I’ve uploaded. I would advise you on all that if I had any idea which one had treated me better, worked more reliably or was a better value. Sadly, I don’t! I use Blogger and yesterday I couldn’t find a neglected page of HTML without uploading it again.
John, feel free to drop me a line on this. It really shouldn’t be a problem to drop some pre-authored html into a wordpress install, but that can vary with the theme. I can have a look if you’d like.
Do take Gordo up on that offer, John!
I’m trying to rescue my geocities site, as wretched Yahoo is shutting it down this month. That was the first social networking site I joined 11 years ago. Yahoo doesn’t think it is ‘social’ enough for the younger folks. They want to compete directly with MySpace and Facebooks, the darned fools!!
Since I never did scripting and darn little in the way of html I would be of no help to your effort.
I have been using vervehosting.com for five years now and I’ve been very happy with them. (I’ve got several domains registered and hosted on my account with them because I do the web pages for some local associations I belong to.)
Of course that doesn’t help you with any scripting issues you may have. Verve Hosting’s packages include e-mail accounts, MYSQL, PHP, etc. — but I don’t use any of that. I keep telling myself I need to learn PHP but I never seem to get around to it.
(Anyone have a spare round Toit?)
What a lovely summer project, John. We’ll be looking forward to the results, of course. I’m afraid I don’t have any worthwhile suggestions but it sounds like you have plenty of expert help offered. I’ll just sit here and cheer you on, okay?
I have heard that godaddy.com is pretty decent
I have heard that godaddy.com is pretty decent.
Thanks for all the help, friends. In the end I went for a 3-year deal with ‘just host’, including a free registration of a new domain–http://www.oldgreypoet.co.uk. I’ve experimented with it and my old chapbook code works fine so now I’m working on an overall front page design and coding.
Fun fun fun!