I get quoted on Iain Dale’s blog (not something I read regularly. Maybe I should.)
My hits go up by about 100 for yesterday. I’d never have thought Iain was that widely read. Despite his owning a bookshop.
Edit: tech question in the comments, techie readers please note.
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Alex, glad to increase your hit rate. I must say I think your blog design is great. have you had it specially done for you? I’m thinking of upgrading my blog (as it one of the most widely read political blogs on the net!) and would appreciate it if you can tell me how you set it up.
Cheers
Iain
Good grief, thanks for the compliment, Iain, but this is a bog-standard outa-date WordPress installation with a theme which I have only very slightly modified myself from the off-the-shelf.
WordPress is by and large something you host yourself rather than a bigger system like blogger.com that you’re currently using or, say, livejournal.
However, you can get a free WordPress blog at http://www.blogsome.com and probably many other places
I use http://www.dataflame.co.uk as my host, and they’re generally pretty good, and reasonable VFM.
You can migrate fairly easily from blogger to WordPress — instructions here. However, it’s all going to get easier from WP 2.0, according to this article.
There are hundreds of themes out there. This one is called Landzilla by Vladimir Simovic, modified so that I use my own photos in the top rather than stock shots. And also mucked about with the menus down the side to include more categories.
Do you have a techie guru who can advise you? I’m a dabbler in these things. I’m sure someone with as a big a readership as you can get someone to volunteer just by posting that you need someone!
Perhaps I can test that theory on my smaller audience: how easy is it to migrate from WP 1.5.1.3 to newer versions?
Wow, that’s more than I bargained for! I shall mull it over!
Migration from WordPress 1.5 to 2.x is a piece of pie. Just don’t over-write your wp-config.php file.
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