Wow, blogging is complicated

I'll keep this short, since I'm at work and that means I should be thinking up profound statements about blogging, rather than sitting here on our first snowy day of the year, blogging.

I am trying to start Becoming Write-Handed as a new blog. So I optimistically upgrade my Typepad membership and start the process.  I choose a layout, a theme, a color palette, and a new photo. I get all the way to the part about choosing my domain name, and bam!  This gets hard.

I want becomingwritehanded.com to be my new blog.  But Typepad doesn't actually allow me to buy that domain name. I have to buy it somewhere else and point it to Typepad, or I have to end my relationship with Typepad and start a new site on host site like BlueHost that will also support blogging.

I am turning 2-3 hours of computer headache into 2-3 paragraphs, and making it look pretty.

Anyway, just know that I am working on it, and I am overwhelmed, and I really, really want to launch my new pet project ASAP but it's taking me a little while.

Thanks,
Marti

Comments

[Jean Wales]

Thank goodness a young person has admitted to having trouble doing what seemed like a simple task on the computer. I don't feel quite so much like I belong with the dinosaurs. I was thinking about starting my own blog about getting older, but now I may just re-think the whole idea and stick to writing copius emails.

Love U, Aunt Jean

[Luke]

Marti, So glad to hear progress is being made, will the new blog be for both Steve and Marti, or just yours? Tell aunt Jean I said hi,-Later-Dad

[Gail/Mom]

Hi there!
I'm in the same boat as Aunt Jean -- dinosaurs of the Internet Age! They say you can find anything in the Internet, but it's worse than a maze. When is somebody going to simplfy this thing?
Please don't give up, Marti. We just love your blog, no matter what it's name is.
Love, Gail.