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I am a stay at home mother of one daughter, 5, and one step daughter, 10. I am opinionated, honest, and sensitive. I can also be difficult, hard heade...
 
 
 
 

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I have been using MSN Live Spaces as my blog site since 2005. I started it as a venue to share a trying experience. That year, I was falsely accused and charged with child abuse and I used the blog to get the real truth out...the real story. It then turned into something cathartic, a place for my thoughts, reviews, various forms of writing - stuff like that. Now, after 5 years of content I have a lot on there I do not want to lose. BUT this hosting site is SOOOO bad. Commenters have to sign up to leave a comment. Who is going to want to do that? There are not site statistics and the Statcounter site I use does not work well as it is all HTML. And I spent an entire weekend trying to find a way to convert my content from my current site to a new one - but found nothing. Coping and pasting 5 years of stuff will make me want to put a gun to my head.

I also want to make my site more appealing - visually and entertainingly. I need inspiration. Ideas. Suggestions. So, if you have any and want to help lil ole me I would so appreciate it. It should be known that I know little to nothing about computers, software, programming - any of it. Complete novice here.

Thanks for readin' :)

 

 

 

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HeatherRayne 5 pts

You...are flippin awesome. I just emailed you :)

SCanon 5 pts

I would recommend either a Blogger account of a Wordpress account. If you need some real help, I can get you professional help (a la my web developer husband who will help free of charge because you are a fellow BlogHer). Please feel free to email me at mail at merrywifeofcanon dot com and we can talk about getting you migrated over.

Again, free of charge. This is what we bloggers do for each other :)

Somer blogs at Merry Wife of Canon ( http://www.merrywifeofcanon.com ) as well as Smell My Plate ( http://www.smellmyplate.com ).

HeatherRayne 5 pts

I have tried all of that. Found same instructions. I think I am just far too stupid for these instructions. I try to do them as they are written and nothing happens. Nothing works. I am getting too frustrated. This is so ridiculous.

Thank you very much for your help.

HeatherRayne 5 pts

I did. Worked at it for hours. I think MSN puts some error in there to stop it from working because I thought it did work at one time.

vomviersen 5 pts

This article describes the process of moving from Live Spaces to self-hosted WordPress:

http://sev17.com/2010/03/goodbye-live-spaces-hello...

Seems a little complex, but the tips and step-by-step instructions in this article and the link for the actual script used in the process http://b2.broom9.com/?page_id=519 are very detailed.

vomviersen :: Kathi Wilson
http://rottweilers.brilliant-disguise.net/
Chicago, IL

Virginia DeBolt 5 pts

to see if it can import a Live Spaces blog? It can import just about anything with an RSS feed.

Virginia DeBolt
Web Teacher ( http://www.webteacher.ws/ ) | First 50 Words ( http://first50.wordpress.com )