Welcome!!!

Hello my lovely readers! I have finally moved over to Blogger! LOOK at my new design!!! It's pretty darn ace, isn't it?! You don't have me to thank for this beautiful layout, but my lovely designer Veronika over at by the shore. Veronika was beyond patient and made this process seem like a lovely cup of coffee, rather than the complicated coding hell (thanks, Weebly) it actually was! I would recommend her services over and over again, so if you fancy a new look, head over to her site and have a gander :)

You'll have to bear with me as I move all my old posts over from Weebly (which isn't easy due to their evil coding), but in the meantime, I hope you enjoy the new posts that I have planned. I'm trying to be a bit of a cleaner blogger. To post more regularly and have some new features that I'm really excited about. On that note, I'm off to battle with Photoshop (we're becoming better friends) to finish off said new posts! I hope you love this new little space as much as I do, so put your feet up, brew a cuppa and have a nosy...

 

work in progress...

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Hello my lovelies! Just wanted to let you know that I'm right in the middle of migrating all of my posts over to my new Blogger space. Hopefully it'll be up and running in the next few days, but until then I won't be posting any new posts (I know, you'll miss me!).

See you on the other side! :)

{Post originally from July 2014, migrated from Weebly}.

frustrated!!

Ever had one of those moments when you want to chuck you MacBook out the window? Well this is where I was at yesterday. If you follow me on Twitter, you'll know that I'm trying to move away from the Weebly blogging platform to WordPress. Why I hear you ask? Well, initially I loved Weebly. It's so simple to use and I love the whole drag and drop thing. But it seriously has it's limitations. I can't schedule posts, which is a biggie for me. There's also loads of fancy plug-ins and widgets that Weeby doesn't support. Now, I know that Weebly is a relatively new site, it's still growing and adapting every day. But I'm just too impatient to wait on it becoming the platform that I want it to be.

I've messed around with WordPress and Blogger recently and I much prefer the WordPress interface. So, off I went, using lots of different online guides on how to migrate my Weebly posts on to WordPress....but then I hit a brick wall. WordPress no longer allow you to import RSS feeds (insert angry and frustrated faces here). I even went up into O's man cave to use his monster PC (sorry MacBook) to try and figure it out, but to no avail. Unless I want my old posts as a RSS feed widget, or using some complicated conversion program, I'm all out of ideas! I resigned myself to that fact that I'd have to copy and paste any old Weebly posts that I wanted to keep, it's ok, I'm a lady of leisure at the moment so I've got the time for that schnizz.

I then decided to browse the old internet world for a new custom blog template, only to discover that a non-self hosted WordPress cannot support these! Oh lordy, talk about banging my head of the wall! I really don't want to use the generic WordPress themes, so it looks like I might be going down the self-hosted route. Are any of you guys self-hosted? I follow a few bloggers who are and have asked them for advice. It seems *relatively* easy and Go Daddy have a sale on...

So this weekend, I've roped in O to help me sort out the whole self-hosting thing (which is cheaper than I'm paying Weebly at the moment anyway) and to add a custom template. Who knew when I embarked on this mission yesterday that it would be so complicated? If you are thinking of starting up a blog, I would recommend messing around with a few different platforms before making your final decision, I wish I had! Are any of you lovely folks giving your blogs a make over? Or can you recommend any lovely blog template designers? I'd love to see them! Watch this space for a new Whisky & Pancakes coming your way soon!

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