How to shift Platform from Blogger to Wordpress

Note: This is the fourth and final part of the Series Shifting to Wordpress
If you haven’t read the previous parts then they are below :

1. 22 Reasons why your should be at Wordpress Part 1
2. Why you shouldn’t delay shifting to Wordpress Part 2
3. Checklist for Shifting to Wordpress Part 3

Now you have got three things:

• Your own Hosting

• Your own Domain

• Wordpress installation package

If you have buyed the domain and hosting from the same company the Nameservers must be already assigned and you have saved yourself some time ,If however you buy Domain and Hosting from different companies which is considered the best practice among the most webmasters because all your eggs aren’t in the same basket…even i ve domain and hosting on different companies.So now you have to change the Nameservers at your domain control panel to the Nameservers given in the welcome mail of your hosting company .

They would look like this ns1.hostcompany.com,ns2.hostcompany.com.
By changing the Nameservers you are telling the 13 parent root servers on the internet to resolve your domain and to direct it towards your hosting company .

Now domain propagation needs time so it will take some time to www.yoursite.com to locate your hosting ,this is called DNS propagation usually it takes 24-72 hour time frame but i have noticed that nowadays DNS propagation took less time than before, now DNS get easily propagated in less than 24 hours.. Continue reading ‘How to shift Platform from Blogger to Wordpress’

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Checklist for shifting to wordpress? Analogy with shifting Home :)

Note : This is third article in the series “Shifting to wordpress”
You can read the previous articles below:

1. 22 reasons why you should blog at wordpress!
2. Why you should not delay in shifting to wordpress?

After all the research and shaking your mind you decided to go for Wordpress ..Aren’t you feeling excited yes you will and you will feel a little nervous also as you are shifting your hard work to completely new platform think of it as shifting your lovely home to a new place and you don’t even have a single idea what your new home have it for you…you will get new neighbors and you will get to
meet new people in that area.

Analogy with shifting home?
When you shift your home sweet home, the place where you live .Probably you might have spent uncalculated time to make it look like home ,you have beautified the bedroom,drawing room,your also made your study room look like a geek masterplace now for some reasons you want to shift home ..headache…so what, sometimes a man’s got to do what a man’s got to do .. you have to face responsibilities..am i getting serious:)

So you will need money to buy your new home..here you have to pay for Domain and hosting ,and you also want your home to look better than your neighbors house isn’t you,so you have to hunt for the best designer or look out for the best theme that matches your blog taste. Continue reading ‘Checklist for shifting to wordpress? Analogy with shifting Home :)’

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Why you should not delay in shifting to wordpress ?(Shifting to WordPress Part 2)

This is the second post of the series of Shifting to Wordpress(With your own hosting) .You can read the first post in this series here at:

22 reasons why you should be at WordPress :Shifting to Wordpress Part 1 (opens in same window)
22 reasons why you should be at WordPress :Shifting to Wordpress Part 1 (opens in new window)

Here i am gonna to tell you about my experience with wordpress.

I have shifted to Wordpress almost two week ago and i am still waiting for the reindexing of my previous posts by search engines which means i am missing out most of my traffic that has directly reduced my earnings. But there is an interesting part too,Fortunately i am able to retain almost half of my traffic while shifting to Wordpress this has been made possible with the help of Post slug option available in the Wordpress i will talk a little later about this.. Continue reading ‘Why you should not delay in shifting to wordpress ?(Shifting to WordPress Part 2)’

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Its official now Ubisoft to release FarCry 2

I can’t wait to write this down , FarCry one of the most acclaimed First person shooter game has got a sequel and named aptly as Farcry 2 .This time the game will be developed by the Ubisoft’s Montreal studio(Previously it was developed by Crytek) and i just finished watching the teaser ,The music is mind blowing in the Farcry teaser and graphics are as good as its prequel .This game is gonna rock ,If you have played Farcry than you must be thrilling out to get your hands on this game but this game will only be available around the first half of 2008. Continue reading ‘Its official now Ubisoft to release FarCry 2′

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22 Reasons why you should be at Wordpress (Shifting to Wordpress Part 1)

If you are already on Wordpress than consider yourself lucky because you are on the World’s best blogging platform .If you are on any other blogging platform like blogger,Typepad,Movable Type then you should consider shifting to wordpress as if you don’t shift now ..than you have to shift later ..the more delay the more trouble you will face …i will try to cover the know how required to shift to Wordpress in a series of posts of which this is the first one.

22 Reasons Why you need to shift to Wordpress Platform (With your Own Hosting):

1) First impression

You will not overlooked ,if you are using a free blog hosting platform like blogger chances are that you will get overlooked by most of the people,Remember that there are a millions of blogs out there and nobody have that much time to read all of them,so with Wordpress you stand a good chance to steal a impression.

2) Looks/Designs to die out for

Lots of themes of almost every niche.Whatever your blog niche/topic be, you will always find a theme that will suit your blog .

3) Complete control

With your own hosting you are the king ,you can setup subdomains to add more functionality to your blog like a directory,forums, tools etc only limited by your imagination. Continue reading ‘22 Reasons why you should be at Wordpress (Shifting to Wordpress Part 1)’

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Microsoft DRM copy protection technology hacked again

Microsoft Digital Rights Management System makes sure that the person with the digital rights would only be able to play the audio and Video media .But it seems like Microsoft needs to update its DRM technology as the latest version of program FairUse4m can crack the Microsoft Digital Rights Management system for Windows media audio and video files.This is third time Microsoft DRM has got a set back ,last year Microsoft has fixed the holes exploited by the earlier two versions of the FairUse4M program and also filed a lawsuit against anonymous authors but has to drop the lawsuit after failing to identify them.
Continue reading ‘Microsoft DRM copy protection technology hacked again’

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HP Labs presents Digital Colour matching technology for women

The new colour matching technology has been developed by HP Labs which will help women to find the cosmetic product best suited for their skin type .The customer has to sent her photo to the online HP service which will then decide which colours suits particular type of skin ,the new technology could changed the way people buy skin care products the .Women can get recommedation via text sms on which shade will suit them best after studying the photograph sent to HP online service . Continue reading ‘HP Labs presents Digital Colour matching technology for women’

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Finally Techlivez moved to Wordpress

Finally i pressed the magic button available in the wordpress latest version and all my posts have been moved to wordpress now …i am writing this post while waiting for the DNS to resolve my domain name as i ve done the Name server changes which will take a while to resolve .

Also tell me how do you find the new design ,hows the header and plz feel free to browse through techlivez.com and notify me of any analogy,errors which might crept in ..also suggestion from you guys are welcome for getting most of this Wordpress platform ..

Over the next few days i ll be experimenting with the wordpress plugins and all as i am completely new to wordpress…

Yippee finally i am at wordpress

and keep visiting for some more irresistible updates on technology.

Thanks

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LiveStation: watch your TV stations live over internet

Video: LiveStation Demo

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The new Seven wonders of the World : Have a look

The new seven wonders of the 21st century have been declared yesterday on the 07-07-2007 here is the final list of monuments and structures that have made it into the top 7 wonders of the world.The good thing is that the India’s “Taj Mahal” too has made it into the final list of the 7 wonders of the world .Thanks to all Indians who had voted for Taj Mahal for its inclusion in the final list after all it deserved that place.

Below are the Final new Seven wonders of the World:

TAJ MAHAL ,INDIA
Continue reading ‘The new Seven wonders of the World : Have a look’

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