Welcome to our new domain name

So the full transition will take a couple of days, but we are now: http://www.blogaboutabloke.com/ !!!
I am going to attempt (!) to find the archives of http://www.ryley.net/ and transfer them over to here if I can. Ryley.net was our first blog/website years ago. It archived somewhere in the internet library so I am going to hunt it down. I tried to do it last year and failed. So hopefully I can do it this time?!






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  1. KristenJune 23, 2011 at 7:05 AM

    Ok. so tell me about this switch. why did you do it? Was it hard? What is different now that you are on "your own"? Are you still powered by blogger? Oh - there are so many things I want to know... please teach me! (and if I asked something too personal, I didn't mean to.)

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  2. AnnaJune 23, 2011 at 4:48 PM

    Kristen- It was really easy to do! Just paid for my domain name through blogger/google. The main reason I went to my own domain name is to protect my 'brand'. No one else can start up a blog now called blog about a bloke. I have twitter and FB accounts under Blogaboutabloke so it makes sense to have it all the same. I am still all new to this, just learning as I go!! I guess my plans for the blog is to try and keep improving it and to do that I think being a dot com is the first step. Does that make sense?? And I don't mind you asking at all!!

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  3. Phil DzialoJune 24, 2011 at 4:41 AM

    Good luck...my personal level of blogging sophistication would never allow this. I would probably lose everything in two seconds!

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