I lost the hosting and didn't have a backup of everything. It went bye bye. There's a long story behind that, a friend was hosting this for me, but I've lost contact, and become distracted.

I really like blogging. I relaxes me, lets me express thoughts that might otherwise drive me mad. I like to partake in conversation with other blogs, advance ideas beyond what I could do alone. And even a broken clock is right twice a day, so when that happens I'm glad to share my opinion.

I want to set up John's Blog 2.0, but this time I want it on a Windows server, running ASP.NET 2 at least, if not 3. Does anybody have any advice on how I should make that happen?

Can anyone think of a good domain name for my new site that I'm dreaming of? I sold the other one (I feel so dirty, but I only charged what I paid for it, to a friend) and I think over time my old blog shifted in direction. Most of my friends in real life are very smart, but don't know a thing about SEO. I assumed the same of my readers. But SEO is actually a fascinating topic, and I liked blogging about it sometimes. But with kid gloves, explaining things to people who might not know what html tags are. Instead of generalized knowledge but mostly politics and psychology, I want to write more about the online world.

Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

Can anyone think of a good domain name for my new site that I'm dreaming of?

How about...... alexandersarchive.wordpress.com ?


Seriously though, looks like you got everything up and running well. Just be sure to backup often in the future , server problems can be a b****.

You sound like a crying baby man!
Why don't you do it yourself, we don't have time for thinking of a nice domain name for you.

Originally Posted by webcosmo

You sound like a crying baby man!
Why don't you do it yourself, we don't have time for thinking of a nice domain name for you.

Yet you find it okay to ask members here to suggest keywords for you?

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/google...-keywords.html

@learningnewbie : How about ilovepagerank.com?

Sad to hear this happened toy you but on the positive side we all learn from our mistake so keep that on mind. Also just so you know I'm going to back up my database right now

Thanks

You gave me a red for the comment.
How about whydontyoudoityourself.com

John, just a thought here, but you might want to update your sig. They're mostly dead links from your old blog.

Originally Posted by webcosmo

You gave me a red for the comment.
How about whydontyoudoityourself.com

John (aka Learning Newbie) is a highly valued member and also a staff member. He doesn't usually ask much and contributes a lot to the forum. I think it's perfectly fine for him to ask for a few suggestions once in a while.

Back on topic:
Earlier today, I was thinking about your signature - you need to update it as James said.

I take it you've gone for the Wordpress option. If you are thinking of buying your own domain, umm... I don't feel particularly creative right now, but LearningNewbie.com is actually available It's certainly memorable I dunno... RamblingsOfJohn.com?! Lol. I'm sure there are plenty of appropriate domains out there.

Umm why are you doing it on a windows server? Especially your friend's server, Windows is more vunerable to being hacked. Php is VERY fine for most stuff people are doing, I'm not trying to promote myself, but i just wrote an article on this.

I recommend you read it: http://www.jdfreelance.com/blog/?p=10
If the admins don't like it, delete this post. Just trying to help you out. No reason to switch lol. Go open-source!

Good luck,

Joe