Comments: 22

Goodbye, Skylight…

…hello, Bottled Sky! I now have my very own domain, a gift from Kathy, Ivy, Tin, Albert, and Derek. Aside from the domain name, they also paid for an entire year’s worth of hosting. Thanks so much, you guys! Tracy of Katgyrl.com also deserves a huge thank you for hosting me for six long years. That’s an eternity in web time! She is made of pure awesome.

As you can see I’ve basically kept the same layout, making just a few minor adjustments to reflect the change of title. I also cleaned up the content a little and installed WordPress. I encountered problems while attempting to import my Blogger posts, so I ended up having to manually add every single entry. I’ve never been more thankful that I don’t blog that often, haha! It sucks that I can’t import my old Haloscan comments. I definitely have no plans of doing that manually, though, so I’m just going to have to let it go :-P (Edited on 2/13/2007: Scratch that. My “OCness” got to me and I ended up transferring the comments anyway.)

If you have me in your links or bookmarks, don’t forget to update them. And please let me know if you find any bugs. I’m still very new to WP, so there’s a huge chance of errors lurking in the shadows. (Cue ominous music.)

Happy new year, everyone!

02 Jan 2007 Friends / Web

22 Comments

    • Denise 1/3/07 @ 02:47

    • aw, that was sweet of your friends to get you a domain….congrats on it! Its looks awesome and I do not see any errors :)

    • Rafia 1/3/07 @ 04:25

    • Yay! A new domain! That is really sweet of your friends to buy and host your domain! Though my host is great as well! Yay for both of us!

      I’ll be changing my links right now! :)

    • Rosemarie 1/3/07 @ 15:36

    • awesome!!!
      Wow, I’m going to take ages getting used to this after so many years of the other url.

    • Nikki 1/3/07 @ 18:10

    • Thanks, everyone! :-) It really is a wonderful gift. It’s all I’ve been playing with for the past few days, hehe!

      I did feel a little sad deleting my files from my old host, though. I got a bit nostalgic — after all I had that URL for a pretty long time.

      But it’s all good ;-) New year, new beginnings!

    • Izza 1/3/07 @ 21:41

    • Does this mean that if I search for “skylights” I won’t come by your site anymore? LOL It’s kind of sad not seeing a Skylight v.[whatever] on the banner, but it’s still cool that you now have your own home on the web. *snickers*

      Import ALL your blogger entries manually? I’d die if I had to do that with mine! I considered hauling my Blogger posts to my LJ account once, but I was just overwhelmed by the number! O_o

    • Nikki 1/3/07 @ 23:54

    • Izza, that’s right! I’m not misleading innocent skylight shoppers anymore :-P

      As for importing manually, I only had 50+ posts over the course of 6 years, so it wasn’t that bad. You, on the other hand, blog a LOT more often so it really would have been a nightmare had you done the same. I suppose there are some benefits to being a lazy blogger LOL.

    • Aliana 1/4/07 @ 01:33

    • That’s awesome that you got hosting -and- a domain name as a present! It’s going to take getting used to w/ a new url (yes, I’m a lurker -isshamed-.

      But If you ever need cheap hosting (later on I mean), me and some friends are offering it at 2000mb for $3.00 a month if you’re ever desperate.
      Just send me an email – and if not, good luck with the site.

      By the way
      Bottled Sky is a pretty awesome name, if I say so myself.

    • Nikki 1/4/07 @ 18:03

    • Thanks, Aliana! I do like this name better than the old one. I’ll keep your offer in mind if I ever need to move to a new host in the future. Also, I’m mostly a lurker, too, so don’t be ashamed! :-P

    • ivy 1/5/07 @ 03:47

    • you are so welcome, girl! go bottledsky, go! :) i have to remember to change the links right now.Ãœ

      kailangan pa may email… for your eyes only ba yun? baka kasi ma-spam.Ãœ

    • Tracey 1/5/07 @ 21:36

    • A very, very belated merry Christmas and a happy new year to you, Nikki! I think this is a fantastic Christmas present, yay!

    • Kat 1/6/07 @ 17:11

    • Oooh! Yay for us, our own domain names and hosting! :) First off I love the domain name, Bottled Sky sounds so pretty and whimsical And yay again for moving to WordPress! You’re going to love it, it’s so easy to use and maintain. Wonder if you’ll get plugin crazy like I am, lol! It’s too bad you couldn’t transfer all the comments though, but at least the posts are there :) The style for this this comment form is so cute, why didn’t I ever think of doing something like this? Anyway, hope you had a great vacation and wish you all the best this coming year!

    • Nikki 1/6/07 @ 22:29

    • I’m glad you all like the name! Thanks! :-)

      Kat, WP definitely kicks Blogger’s ass! It was pretty overwhelming at first, but now I love it. I’ve only installed three plugins so far, but I have a feeling there’ll be a lot more in the near future :-P

    • Tina 1/8/07 @ 16:16

    • I’ve been your site’s visitor for quite some time now…congrats on the domain! =) Lovely name too, matches the lovely layout. :D And I agree, WordPress kicks ass. :D

    • Amanda 1/9/07 @ 10:06

    • Oh my, no more Skylight! Sorry I’m late in commenting, but congratulations on your own domain! It’s an awesome gift to receive. :D

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