What are the secrets to my success? Simple; Eat right, exercise, and don’t take any wooden nickels. Tried and true methods for staying fit and avoiding wooden nickels.
For those who haven’t looked, a comment to my last post was:
- How do you get your site address down to simply “http://www.Jerm.org/”
Do you have to pay?
Tell us your secrets.
I want to thank you for inviting such a pedestrian post from me, i like to think of my ramblings and a bit more whimsical and a tad less informative than this one is bound to be. I’ll play the djinn for the moment, though, and grant your wish. Besides, it’s only fair that the occasional unfortunate traveler who stumbles across this blog might divine some small morsel to keep their time here form being completely wasted. I’ll get right to it, then.
< GEEK >
Now, the question was a little vague, ‘How do you get your site address down to simply “http://www.Jerm.org/”,’as getting one’s url to be short really only requires finding a combination of a few letters that no one else is using as a url yet (yes i’m being pedantic, piss off. did you not see the GEEK tag above?). I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that you meant, using blogger, how do i keep from having all the ancillary crap AFTER the jerm.org/ in order to get to my blog. Elementary, my dear Watson, this is. (You dig it? Sherlock Holmes after a month on Dagobah (what do you want? it was an all-caps GEEK tag))
Anyway, blogger may have some service in which they’ll do the bloggy hosting thing at the base of your url, and i imagine they’d want you to pay for it. This is a guess, however. I could check, but that would require effort. Consider it homework on your part, i want a 3 page report on it by Monday. I imagine the changes are about 50-50, because as i’m sure they could make some money off of it, it’s much easier to just not do it, much like my unwillingness to check into the existence of this feature.
No, what i do is simply have blogger FTP the bloggy goodness to my webserver which, among other things, houses jerm.org. This option is, well, it’s an option in the “publishing” section. I incorporated a line in the blogger template to include my template file, so every time i make an entry, blogger sends be a new home page with my site template built right into it. It took a bit of fooling with DIVs and editing the blogger styles to get everything laid out correctly, but i think the result is rather spiffy, and since i’m the only one who read this blog anyway, that’s all that matters.
< /GEEK >
There you have it, dear reader, my good deed for the season.