For those of you who have been wondering how time consuming it is to start a blog, I give you the following:
me: Â who do you use for hosting and layout?
Ilya: Â hosting is dreamhost
and layout is from woothemes
me: Â cool
i have half an hour til my pork roast is done
Ilya: Â sweet
me: Â think i can go live in that amount of time?
Ilya: Â no
haha
Sent at 7:57 PM on Wednesday
me: Â ok, so domain name
Ilya: Â find something decent
see if you can get a .com
Sent at 7:54 PM on Wednesday
me: Â hmm
yuppiefarms.com
Ilya: Â is it available?
me: Â yes
Ilya: Â eh
me: Â i kno
justoutoftown.com
Ilya: Â hard to read
me: Â cobblecockhill.com
lol
thats what the last owner called the place
Ilya: Â hilarious
dude the name of your town and road are funny
Ilya: Â haha
i was thinking something like city slicker
me: Â hmm
me: Â no
Ilya: Â well yeah i meant having that in the title
me: Â its registered
Ilya: Â yeah
Ilya: Â the site is going to be how to live in the country if you are a city slicker right?
me: Â yea
or at least how im making it work
Ilya: Â www.uncityslicker.com
me: Â oh
how to stop being one
Ilya: Â exactly
people would understand what the site is about
from the title
me: Â good on ya
promo code for hosting?
Ilya: Â let me see if i have one
that site sometimes does crazy good deals
like on earth day
Sent at 8:07 PM on Wednesday
me: Â or your email you used for there for referral
Sent at 8:09 PM on Wednesday
Ilya: Â let me see
were you able to use me as a reference?
yeah, just put my email address down
me: Â yeah, it worked
Ilya: Â sweet
me: Â private server/sql or no?
Ilya: Â naw
not necessary
cause you aren’t making an application
me: Â unique ip?
Ilya: Â nope
Sent at 8:13 PM on Wednesday
me: Â brb
Ilya: Â once you have everything… on the left panel… go down to goodies and one-click installs
then do advanced mode and install wordpress
Sent at 8:15 PM on Wednesday
me: Â that it?
Ilya: Â more or less
is it live yet?
i can’t see it
or does it take some time for them to set it up
me: Â idk
Ilya: Â uncityslicker.com right?
me: Â yeah
Ilya: Â might take a bit
so you did the worpress install too right?
Sent at 8:22 PM on Wednesday
me: Â do i have to put anything on it, or does there have a wordpress placeholder
Ilya: Â it should have the default theme
me: Â its installed
Ilya: Â cool
Sent at 8:25 PM on Wednesday
me: Â try now
the default image is oddly appropriate
Sent at 8:27 PM on Wednesday
TLDR;
Ilya didn’t think I could get my blog going in half an hour. Â BYAAAAAAH!