"AnatolisGameRoom blog closing and new site is up!" Topic
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Anatoli | 13 Oct 2020 4:41 a.m. PST |
Friends, after several days of hard work I'm happy to present to you my new site. After 10 years with blogspot I have moved my online hobby operation from anatolisgameroom at blogspot to a proper site with built in features such as a blog, downloadable files, galleries, improved user interface and a vastly improved layout adapted for both desktop and mobile devices. Drop by and have a look! The site will be very busy with updates in the coming days as I am moving old posts from the old blog to my new site where I'm re-editing the articles to look and read better, while also creating brand new posts and content on my new site. This old blog will remain up, but as you can already see it is filled with broken links and it will not be updated. Once I have moved all posts that I deem worth salvaging to my new site I will shut this page down.
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mghFond | 13 Oct 2020 8:19 a.m. PST |
Lot of hard work there, looks good though! |
Anatoli | 13 Oct 2020 11:14 a.m. PST |
Thanks mghFond! I'm transfering a varied palette of old posts from my old blog to the new site to lay the groundwork. I reckon there should be about 100 posts before the end of the month. After that a more normal pace will commence with a couple of posts per week. |
KeepYourPowderDry | 13 Oct 2020 11:39 p.m. PST |
Anatoli – something I have been considering too. Would be interesting to hear how you went about moving over from blog to site, costs involved. Mistakes made, lessons learned etc |
Anatoli | 14 Oct 2020 1:48 a.m. PST |
@KeepYourPowderDry Costs… pretty steep. Host with domain costs me about 90USD per year. The Squarespace subscription 20USD per month. I could not afford an annual plan right off the bat otherwise the monthly Squarespace cost would be 14USD per month. Lessons learned, do proper research about your host for storage and domain, and choice of website host. I started out remaking the entire blog over at Wix. Loved it because it was very easy to drag and drop various site elements. I think I spend 5 days on it and was about done when I started to suspect that the pictures that I imported through URL from my host one.com/en to Wix took up storage over at Wix as well. This was a problem since I knew Wix only had 10GB of storage on their site! And there was no way to increase it. Naturally for a picture heavy blog this is disaster. I had to resort to use the closest competitor SquareSpace even though I found their crafting tools less intuitive and more difficult to use. SquareSpace however has unlimited bandwidth and storage when you pick a premium plan. Fortunately I could recycle pretty much all the site assets that I had created such as backgrounds, texts etc which had been saved on my desktop in a separate folder. I briefly considered using the homepage option offered by by domain and storage host one.com/en . THe site would have been easy to craft, but they did not offer any option to integrate a blog to it. Instead you would have to use Wordpress, which is imo a very lackluster option and not that many steps above Blogspot. My current problem is that once I connected all my DNS threads from one.com/en as a third party domain host with SquareSpace – I nuked all my image link from before. I don't know if I can fix that without interfering with my new site. I would have liked all my pictures to remain up on various forums but I guess that is a sacrifice that had to be made. Finally, there is no proper way of importing posts from Blogspot to SquareSpace. I am manually copy/pasting text, doing a new layout and re-uploading pictures from my desktop. Fortunately, SquareSpace which has unlimited storage allows me to upload pictures in bulk straight from my desktop folders and I can even do some medium weight image editing through the site which can save time. I still use my AcdSee Pro software for picture editing most time though. My hope is that once I get the new site rolling, there will be enough Patreon income to cover the costs of running the site. |
KeepYourPowderDry | 14 Oct 2020 4:38 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the very comprehensive answer Anatoli. Much appreciated. (Think I might keep my blog as it is and tweak categories of labels instead) |
Anatoli | 14 Oct 2020 12:03 p.m. PST |
@KeepYourPowderDry, no problem, glad to help! Finished work on my new YouTube video intro sequence to replace the old one that was lost. Let me know what you think 🙂 youtu.be/YItud7_Xn9Y For those interested there is also a Patreon site that is fresh off the boat link I really plan to put a lot of effort into this and deliver quality content all around on both the blog/youtube/patreon having taken heavy inspiration from fellow hobbyists over the past couple of months. :) |
Martyn K | 14 Oct 2020 12:04 p.m. PST |
I have a two websites hosted by Bluehost, a business one and my hobby one ( collegeofkings.com ). When the hobby one came due for renewal they sent me a quote for a huge amount. I phoned them up and showed them that it was just a hobby site and I was not making any money from it. We came to a deal where they charged me about 40-50% of the annual cost and I decided to lock that in for three years. I am not sure whether the fact that they are hosting my business site factored in. In any case, it sometimes pays to negotiate with the hosting company when they can see that it is just a hobby site. |
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