So there I was...
Dec. 10th, 2007 11:32![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedge...looking at my LiveJournal, and it occurs to me that the moniker "billTheTailor" isn't exactly accurate anymore. As of 23:59:59, December 31st, 2007, Seamlyne Reproductions is going away as a retail entity, I'm selling my machines, and I'm reorganizing my shop into a media studio. Tailor? Not no more. Nuh-uh.
I want to have a blog online that becomes a place other people come to read about filmmaking. That's easy: write about filmmaking, starting with "Greater Dark"; back date the entries like I've been doing this for years; start documenting some of the new experiences; write some articles about how to handle lighting on the cheap and how to stabilize a small camera and how to this and how to that.
I have no real desire to close this blog and start a new one, though: there's a lot of stuff here that's either really good or really personal or both and I don't want to throw that away.
Okay, says I, here's what I'll do: I'll keep billTheTailor.livejournal.com for personal entries. Now to create the new blog: mapsEdgeMedia dot somewhere dot com.
Typepad? Nice tool, but not free. Free is really important right now.
Wordpress? Another nice tool, but to get any real customization you have to pay. Again, no-go.
Blogspot? Gets me the level of customization I want, but doesn't offer pages*. I did go ahead and try it out, though, if you want to see it: http://mapsedgemedia.blogspot.com.
In all those cases, too, you have to pay money for storage. Since I plan to host videos, images and other media files, storage becomes kind of important.
Okay, so I'll write my own. That's not so tough. Little ASP code, little SQL database, done. It would also be a good prototype for a couple other sites I've been asked to build. Web hosting costs money, though...
Then it occurs to me.
Jesus, what an idiot I've been.
I OWN a web hosting company; it's what I do for a living. I am its webmaster and its DBA and the administrator of the DNS server.
Problem, and blog, solved.
* On Wordpress, a "page" is just another blog entry, but it lives outside the blog hierarchy.
I want to have a blog online that becomes a place other people come to read about filmmaking. That's easy: write about filmmaking, starting with "Greater Dark"; back date the entries like I've been doing this for years; start documenting some of the new experiences; write some articles about how to handle lighting on the cheap and how to stabilize a small camera and how to this and how to that.
I have no real desire to close this blog and start a new one, though: there's a lot of stuff here that's either really good or really personal or both and I don't want to throw that away.
Okay, says I, here's what I'll do: I'll keep billTheTailor.livejournal.com for personal entries. Now to create the new blog: mapsEdgeMedia dot somewhere dot com.
Typepad? Nice tool, but not free. Free is really important right now.
Wordpress? Another nice tool, but to get any real customization you have to pay. Again, no-go.
Blogspot? Gets me the level of customization I want, but doesn't offer pages*. I did go ahead and try it out, though, if you want to see it: http://mapsedgemedia.blogspot.com.
In all those cases, too, you have to pay money for storage. Since I plan to host videos, images and other media files, storage becomes kind of important.
Okay, so I'll write my own. That's not so tough. Little ASP code, little SQL database, done. It would also be a good prototype for a couple other sites I've been asked to build. Web hosting costs money, though...
Then it occurs to me.
Jesus, what an idiot I've been.
I OWN a web hosting company; it's what I do for a living. I am its webmaster and its DBA and the administrator of the DNS server.
Problem, and blog, solved.
* On Wordpress, a "page" is just another blog entry, but it lives outside the blog hierarchy.