*First time here?  Have a look around before you whizz off:)

Trying to understand how everything fits together when you don’t always understand the basics is

daunting…You just start to think you’re the only one who doesn’t get stuff :)

Anyway….From now on you’ll find me hanging around *here

and I’ll be blogging about things *HERE

Also: big thank you to TWITTER friends and inspirers, I’m really grateful to all of ya, thanks!:) – * Who are they? go to “blogroll” listing to the right here under PAGES >

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I’ve finally managed to set up my own-hosted WordPress blog. That is… a WordPress blog on my own domain which gives me far more options than using WordPress.com.  In my case it was necessary to do this because I want to try and sell my work online and a blog on WordPress.com doesn’t allow you to advertise and/or sell stuff.

I think it’s fair to say that if you don’t have a good idea of how everything fits together it’s not a particularly easy task… whatever anyone might tell you:), (especially if you’re not a natural techie:) But it’s like anything new.. There’s always a first time.

My advice would be to get as much general knowledge beforehand…Read up, Foundation Website Creation a downloadable text by Lane, Moscovitz, and Lewis is really helpful, or you could  Google and so on.  Also, ask around, friends and your online contacts – I found that bit quite hard:)  It’s not always easy to admit you don’t understand something that everyone else seems to understand:)  Take it from me they don’t all understand and anyway, it’s not all about that… it’s about where you are and where you want to get to.  The really nice discovery for me was that online strangers were often quite willing to offer really good and usually helpful advice, sortta makes you feel a whole lot better about humanity.

There’s so many knowledgeable people out there so ask them about this do…. but what I learnt, very basically was:

If you want to move your old WordPress.com to your own domain.. First find a webhosting service that makes it easy. There’s loads to choose from, ask friends; what they use might be a good starting point. The one I used has a one click transfer, which sounded dead easy but required a bit of understanding too:).  Then to start with: keep it simple, make a front page (There’s  loads of choices of editor programs for doing this), again ask around, the page that is your front page should be named index.htm/html/xhtml/css/php (if you don’t know what xhtml, css and php are, stick with basic HTML to start with) …I made a big mistake with this at first and had to ask for more help. The index.htm/html/xhtml/css/php goes inside your domain root folder – if you want to use images you should make a directory for them too (which is just good housekeeping, they could all go in the root-folder, but you’d soon have millions of files there, a bit like that kitchen drawer…) and upload those separately….

My main problem was that I didn’t understand how the whole thing fitted together… The techie jargon is a bit daunting too. I sortta think I get it all, er…roughly :), now, but considering that a month ago I didn’t know anything much about all this apart from a vague idea, I’m not beating myself up too much. A friend did try and explain it all a year or so back but I didn’t really understand, got things a bit mixed up and all the information she gave me all at once actually confused me so much I almost got phobic about it! (Not her fault I hasten to add… I’m sure if I’d been more alert it would have made perfect sense ).  I decided to link my first page to my blog only, but I suppose you could make links to lots of different places if you wanted to.. You don’t need to make more than that first page to start with.  Alternatively, You can make the the front page on your blog your domain’s front page, but I didn’t as I wasn’t quite sure where to put the files in the root directory.

Then all you gotta do is remember to pay the hosting bill:)

Heartfelt thanks for online handholding go to: Jonas Anderson (Swedish blogger extrordinaire and co-writer of Sweden’s  best blogging online journal) and Ivan Pope (In my opinion one of the very best UK art blogs around.) Also, much thanks to other kind people on Twitter.com who offered help and ideas and not least to everyone who has commented here these past weeks, it’s been really appreciated I can tell ya :) And please feel free to leave any further comments you think might be of help to me and to others, thanks.

So all I have do now is get going… Will post link to the new place here when I’m done with the final tidying.

And……. I’ll need to start the new painting project……..:)

Linda Palmer akaP O N O R09 …”

Posted in 3D object, ani, art, digitaldrawing, drawing, experiment, feedback, foto, konst, mixedmedia, new project, object, oil painting, oil sketch, oils, painting, photo, talking about it, watercolor, watercolour Tagged: about learning new things, admitting stuff, art, arte, bild, digital drawing, domain hosting, drawing, Foundation Website Creation, in the studio, ivan pope, jonas anderson, jonathon lane, joseph r. lewis, konst, kunst, make your own, meiter moscovitz, moving wordpress.com to own domain, oil painting, ponor, syed aslam, talking about things online, teckning, webhosting ]]> http://ponor.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/howilearnttostopworryingandlovecode/feed/ 6 ponor whitespacer 21-cag-espicutout2 http://ponor.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/ukstudio-allmyownmess/ http://ponor.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/ukstudio-allmyownmess/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:49:55 +0000 ponor http://ponor.wordpress.com/?p=3040 ]]>

“…feeling I’m outside any usual zone of comfort, not a bad thing…”

click anywhere on image to activate:)

….and in the meantime a “visual” tweet artwork 140cha…:)

Posted in art Tagged: ani, animated, art, arte, broken wacom, cell phone pic, cellphone foto, digital drawing, digitaldrawing, foto, konst, kunst, lying down:), never posted a picture of myself before it's scary, on a mobile phone camera, resting:), thanks for all the good suggestions, wiggly ]]> http://ponor.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/progressof-sorts/feed/ 3 ponor broken1 whitespacer progressofsorts http://ponor.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/whattodo/ http://ponor.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/whattodo/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:45:21 +0000 ponor http://ponor.wordpress.com/?p=2852 ]]> Asking for advice/help  :)

I have to make a new site for P O N O R. Can’t use WordPress.com anymore, as you can’t sell

and are not supposed to advertise for sale here. What To Do?  Should I make a

completely new P O N O R?  Or should I get an own domain and add

this blog?  I’ve never made a site completely from scratch

before…I have tried to,  but everything looked

really bad.  What’s needed is a completely

simple site.. .White with my name,

in pale grey, largish type

and a big wide

space for

post

-ing

to.

I like to post BIG pictures :) Can anyone suggest the best way to go with this please?  Oh, And I’ll need something like Paypal so’s I can offer stuff for sale. (Feeling pathetic)

Also, my WACOM tablet has made a bid for artistic freedom and is making wobbly arabesques, when I want it to do straight lines…Grr….. Feeling a bit overwhelmed  = (

also: I need some new paints:) so please vote for P O N O R

this link is live now vote for P O N O R many thanks!

Posted in 3D object, art, feedback, foto, konst, new project, object, oil painting, oil sketch, oils, painting, photo Tagged: 3D object, art, art object, arte, feedback, konst, kunst, mixed media, need some new paint, new project, nytt projekt, painting, please vote for me, ponor, what do you think?, would this work? ]]> http://ponor.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/p-o-n-o-rnewproject/feed/ 20 ponor whitespacer project2 cutup paint http://ponor.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/p-o-n-o-rposterous/ http://ponor.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/p-o-n-o-rposterous/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:08:58 +0000 ponor http://ponor.wordpress.com/?p=2747 ]]>

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