A Mommy Story

Well, here it is! This is the new site, and hopefully some of you are seeing it. It was quite a weekend of transitioning everything over, and I’m not so sure I’m done yet. I followed the guides and everything worked perfectly in the switch, until I then temporarily (or so I thought) disabled the custom domain from my Blogger account.

When I was ready to re-enable the custom domain on my old blog, so that anyone searching for any posts there would automatically be redirected to the new site, Google decided that it no longer believed that the domain was mine.

This red text plagued me all weekend.

Hours of trying all of their help docs to change custom fields in my DNS manager and repeated attempts to verify the domain and set it up, and nothing changed. I re-set the nameservers back, tried everything out there in source guides, and Google refused to verify the custom domain again.

(If you are non-techie and don’t follow a thing I’ve said so far, I’ll cut to the chase: I only made things worse.)

I finally gave up and decided I’d just post a “hey, I’ve moved” style post on the old blog and continue forward with everything here. I changed it all back…and then the www. version of my site decided it didn’t want to work. And Feedburner refused to switch my feed for me. I’m still working on these issues.

I no longer feel as mighty about making the switch on my own.

But here it is. I finally (FINALLY!) made the jump to WordPress. And it’s still very much a work-in-progress, so please excuse the changes you’ll continue seeing over the next few weeks. I’m not totally happy with the look (I never am, let’s be honest) and there are still some layout changes I need to figure out how to do.

So, what do you think?