pinakamaganda

This is not geek, I promise.

I am currently enjoying this big switch (Me/iWeb -> 000webhost/Wordpress). Well, the migration of all entries would still definitely be a headache since I’m probably the only one (among the few) who uses iWeb’s fancy drag and drop site creation tool. There really aren’t any nice resources out there in the web to help me. Haven’t began the real migration yet that’s why my past entries aren’t here yet. I’m organizing everything first so everything here will temporarily be about the *boring* migration stuffs. Plus maybe some out of the blue thoughts (which I believe will appear here most of the time), of course. Anyway, here’s the most helpful site that I have so far:

http://www.maciverse.com/how-to-import-your-iweb-blog-to-wordpress.html

The guys at Apple did admit their mistakes of their own migration last year (from .mac to me), which really caused a lot of brouhahas to all their subscribers. Which includes me, because I was feeling “all alone” back then so I need to blog often, like every hour for every damn day (a little exaggerated but partially true during the weekends). Until they gave 2 months extension free. 2-3 days of down time in exchange to 2 month free subscription made me celebrate. Unfortunately, my 2 months extension is almost up. And I need to decide right away, “to renew or not to renew?”

Obviously I decided not to renew. But later on, when the economy stabilizes once again (so are my *hay* finances), I’m renewing my Me account. My videos (a.k.a. self-selling-shows) are all there!

No offense to Apple, I love all their products. It’s just the loading time that I’m whining about. Nonetheless, I had a great time at iWeb. The layouts are cool and dandy. When the layout is cool, the thoughts will come. Same is true for the environment. When the environment is nice and cozy, the writing will be nice and cozy. When the environment is dirty, the writing will also be dirty. I better stay away from the dirty.

I’m feeling ecstatic about Wordpress. Here are the reasons why:

1. Variety. There are millions of themes to choose from. And this theme is the best so far, it’s Mac-ish and is perfect for my “dear diary” mood. – just changed to this fence design. And I love it! Plus, it complies with that W3C standards. I didn’t know actually what the hell those standards are. And I didn’t care, until NOW. As in only today! Peace to ya’ll SEO friends!

2. Ease of Installation. And I thought first that the installation would give me headache too. But it’s more like a copy-paste type. Just a few tweaks and clicks with the configuration file and the database setup.

3. Flexibility! You can edit all those codes and change the look a little. But there’s really no need to be a PHP aficionado to do all these. Plus, the best part is that you can design your own layout! I’ll be doing that soon! Please pray for me …and please also give me free full version of Photoshop or Aperture (No to piracy! But I accept gifts. ). The trial versions won’t be that reliable if I wanted to be a web design goddess… Saaad!!

4. Fast Loading Time. Actually this is really the first reason why I decided to make the big switch.

There are plenty more reasons, but that’s what I had came up so far.

Meanwhile, it’s like I’m beginning my web site all over again. Because I’m thinking of the content organization one more time. Like, what categories, tags, etc… Another overhead, but enjoying them anyway.

What you’re seeing now is still me, the fab and proud owner of www.pinakamaganda.net  My site is undergoing a major overhaul so it will be a little unstable for two weeks. I’m giving it two weeks only to migrate all my entries. Wish me luck, I’m having a major headache now on this migration.

My hosting at Mobile Me (Apple’s web hosting service) will expire soon. I had my apprehensions about renewing the hosting there. Most of my loyal readers (aka friends) say that my site is too slow. Probably because of the graphics of my web tool or the hosting service. Apple loves these graphics. I love them too. But no matter what I did with the pictures, removal of scripts, links, etc… it’s still slow.

So I’m not renewing it anymore there, and that would also mean trashing *sniff*sniff* my web creator tool, iWeb (also by Apple). I’m migrating my hosting to a free web host service. As my most practical response to the global economic crisis, I’m not buying any hosting services yet, will be using the free 000webhost services instead. Good thing my domain is till December so I’m good with it. Regarding the web tool, I’m migrating to.. WORDPRESS! I’m still familiarizing myself though with this new platform. But so far… I like it!

Plus, I’m taking an oh so sweet plunge to the world of Web Design. I am thankful for this current design. It’s still Mac-ish But later on I’ll be changing it to my own. Not sure though how soon will that be… Anyway web design was really my thing before I got into application development so I hope this kind-of fighting spirit will work. Will be creating my own banner soon. I have a lot to learn about Photoshop… *whew* lots of things to do.

I have a positive outlook for this new feel. Aside from my usual whines, pinakamaganda.net will house all my other stuffs including beauty, travel and geeky projects.

Aside from the *hopefully* faster loading of my site, expect some more changes…

Stay Tuned!