Changing Journals
My old journal in Pitas wasn't really very easy to maintain. However, it was very easy to design since I only needed knowledge in HTML. Pitas has served me well for over three years with it's benefit of having an ad-free page. Unfortunately, it only provided ONE ad-free page, and that sometimes created problems for me because I had to limit my layouts to tables and divs. Furthermore, I had to strain my eyes in reading lenghty codes since I couldn't link to an external style sheet.
Now that I have my own webspace, I can freely design my blog any way I want. All I had to do was embed my previous blog to my new page; but it wasn't that easy, my old journal was already linked by my friends. Therefore, if they access the old one, they'll only see the entries and not the whole blog; I didn't want that, I like it when my visitors get to see pretty images. Plus, I wanted to express my moods in every journal entry I made, and although I've managed to show this with text, I actually preferred emoticons. Hence, I opted to look for another blogging tool and chose lj.
At this point, I thought that it was finally going to be easy for me to place my thoughts in my website; alas, it wasn't. I checked at the ways of pasting this blog to other sites and realized that I first needed to learn PERL, PHP or SHTML. After an hour of studying the latter, I finally learned a thing or two, but the solution it provided to me was not right. Hence, I jumped to another language (PHP) which- hopefully- will be the right one. =P
Now that I have my own webspace, I can freely design my blog any way I want. All I had to do was embed my previous blog to my new page; but it wasn't that easy, my old journal was already linked by my friends. Therefore, if they access the old one, they'll only see the entries and not the whole blog; I didn't want that, I like it when my visitors get to see pretty images. Plus, I wanted to express my moods in every journal entry I made, and although I've managed to show this with text, I actually preferred emoticons. Hence, I opted to look for another blogging tool and chose lj.
At this point, I thought that it was finally going to be easy for me to place my thoughts in my website; alas, it wasn't. I checked at the ways of pasting this blog to other sites and realized that I first needed to learn PERL, PHP or SHTML. After an hour of studying the latter, I finally learned a thing or two, but the solution it provided to me was not right. Hence, I jumped to another language (PHP) which- hopefully- will be the right one. =P