Bought house, move house, stranger in the house
May 31st, 2007 by Clare
A drastic change on my blog, Kampua Talk, has been witnessed since last week. It was riot, initially, when the damage was done to every angle of my precious blog (house).
To sum it up, I bought my own domain name and redirect it to my then blog in Blogger since I had not host my own web yet. A few days later, I got to host my own web. So, I moved to a new house. Like Wuching said, the house is in a mess as I have not unpacked the boxes yet. Well, I just imported everything I had from Blogger. To add the frustration, I do not even know my way around my own house! 
I felt like a stranger in my own house! I even accidentally stepped into the toilet bowl when trying to decorate the house. Hahaha!!!
Then I seeked professional advice from 5xMom who then posted my questions on her Make$ Money$ blog. Thank you, Auntie! Next time chia lu lim kopi 
There are thousands of themes available but they are fugly. Since I am so used to Blogger’s templates, I have to start from zero when using Wordpress. It is like starting to use Nokia handphone when you have been using Sony Ericsson for eons i.e. the space key and keypad lock are different. But a perfectly designed theme/template that I want is so so so hard to find, damn it!
Nah, forget it for the moment! Too frustrated to learn now. Heheheh!!! *hungry*
why don’s use domain in name like… kampua.com or other name? ha ha
Thought of that but my main content is not about kampua mah…later Sibu tourism come look for me how. Hahaha!!! Anyway, I’m glad to ‘move house’
To address some of your questions to 5xmom, I clarify below (question in bold is by you:
1. Why I cannot use my personalized e-mail account liao? I was using (somename)@clareng.com with gmail but now when I typed mail.clareng.com, the log in page didnt show.
The reason is because you are hosting your own web now and your domain name is using the hoster’s nameserver now. Therefore, mail.clareng.com has been configured to default to your SMTP and POP3 address on the server. Your MX record (for email) has been pointed to the mail server on your host. I have actually helped you re-registered your (someone)@clareng.com in the new mail server and hence you can still access your mails sent to that address via your webmail from cPanel or you could optionally download them using email clients like Outlook. No longer can you use gmail for mail hosting as your MX record is no longer pointing there. In layman term, the mail server on your webhosting is now your post office acting as the sender and receiver. GMail is no longer doing the job for you.
3. How to learn all those html coding and stuff? I am seriously illiterate in this field. Even though I took the course previous semester liao I still know nuts about what I’ve studied. LOL! I know there is this thing called Google…but what to type to be specific ar?
Try http://www.w3schools.com. I have always referenced the site for quick reference on codings like PHP, HTML, ASP, Javascript, CSS, as well as VBScript. It’s a very good website and it does give short tutorials on almost all languages mentioned above. That would give you a kick start. Anything more advanced, fell free to ask, or browse the site more. You’d be amazed at what it has to offer.
5. So, my new site’s counter is going to start counting from 0?
You are using Statcounter and depending on how you want it, you can make the counter start from 0 or you can make it start from where you previously left off from your previous website. It all depends on what you want to achieve.
6. What is RSS feed? Or burner? Heard that a lot and know they have something to do with the square orange logo but know nuts about it. Hahahha!!! *slap self*
A RSS feed can basically be looked at as a way for you to get information on a website. Look at it as a brochure containing information from a website. A feed can contain full information or just partial information, depending on how you set it. A feed is often used by blog readers to check for updates on blogs without actually going to the site. By subscribing to a feed, it’s like subscribing to a news letter in real life. If you notice a orange icon with a wave like image on your browser address bar (Mozilla Firefox in this case), you can click on it to subscribe to the feed. What this does is that it adds a live bookmark to your Favourites and you can basically go to your favourites and the browser will fetch the latest titles(real time) from the blog feed and show them to you. From the title, you basically know if a blog has new updates or not. Click on any listed titles and the browser will bring you to the right page for viewing. Feedburner is a website service using feeds from your website to aggregate posts or information for other people to read as well as advertising. From here, people get to know about your blog and the latest write ups. Should they so desire, they can read up your blog.
I can go on about this and it will be so long I’d have to contribute a post for this. This is the answer I can give to some of your questions here. Any additional questions, feel free to ask.
*Tau hin hin* Thanks!
But don’t complain I ask too much stupid question ok…
Hi there Clare?
Thanks for dropping by my blog. You were like me too. move new house but never unpacked one. Thought already got the nicest color(theme) but never satisfied one… until i decode it myself.
In fact I ever used this theme. I like the header style, the tab but i just could not use the single sidebar. I have too many things put up there. Hahahaa. But honestly speaking, this is the best theme just before i created my own. Stick to it if have not decided to “renovate your house”
For a 1st comment, I already this long. What more If i have known u for 2 days. LOL.
Thanks for dropping by, Papajoneh! Heheh!
In the mean time I think I’ll stick to this theme, but I still prefer 2 sidebars
I know what you mean by fugly themes, why do you prefer 2 sidebars?
Don’t know. Just like it. Seems like I have a lot of junk to put at the sidebar. Hehehe!
Clare.. Clare.. At least you’re better than me.. hehehe..
Better than you in what sense oh?