This the second article in a series explaining how to upgrade your Blogger blog to Wordpress running on your own domain. Yesterday I described preliminaries, like getting a hosting account and a domain name. Today, I’ll discuss how to actually get your “site” up. Tomorrow, I’ll describe how install Wordpress. Afterwards, I’ll finally get around to telling you how to import your Blogger blogs!
Now, when I write “how tos”, I like to explain both the goal and give the step-by-step instructions. Some readers like to read the goal first, and the step-by-step instructions second. Some like the revers. Today, I’ll describe the goal first.
What are you trying to actually accomplish with today’s “how to”?
Remember yesterday, I told you to you set up a hosting account, register a domain and arrange the DNS pointers to “find” your domain which, for the purposes of discussion we’ll call, “myblogdomain.com” at your host. Then, I said to wait 24 hours. So, you waited.
Now, I bet you think you can just enter “http://myblogdomain.com” into your browswer, and you’ll find something. Well… probably not. Or at least, you won’t find anything useful. Why not? I’ll explain using an analogy.
Think of your hosting account as providing you a big pc (aka ” server”) that is located “over there”. My hosting account is Dreamhost, which means my “big PC” (aka “server”) happens to be in California. Read the rest of this entry »
