Why I’ve transferred my blog to WordPress
I’m a digitally-challenged person and so transferring to a WordPress blog for me is like jumping into the deep end of the pool for the first time.
I’m the person my hubby would like to hide in the closet should his peers come around and start talking about the web, the internet and all sorts of electronic stuff. You see, he teaches online journalism at the International Institute of Journalism in Berlin.
He urged me to start a blog two years ago. I signed up for one but did not put up a site. Just looking at the Dashboard or command page of WordPress made my head spin.
Then middle of this year I finally signed up for Facebook and Tweeter upon his prodding, then stumbled on Blogger and started blogging by trial and error. Lots of errors, but I learned.
And I met Japan-based Farah Trofeo on Facebook. She encouraged me to put up a WordPress site. And so I took another look at WordPress, with lots of help from Lynda.com tutorials.
I realized that my frustrations using Blogger could be addressed by WordPress. For instance, I could upload documents as PDF files to back up what I say in my blogs. I could change the color and size of the text easily to emphasize certain parts of the entry.
This is my latest adventure into virgin land. I’m learning everyday and making mistakes everyday. Hope you’ll join me.
@tribong_upos
thanks for the encouraging words.
hmmm haven’t tried wordpress, i just love xanga because of the community, but its not so professional looking…
i love your site, the content is awesome… now following you on twitter… 
Congratulations! That’s one of the best decisions you’ve made in your life (I am biased, of course). I’ve worked with both Blogger and WordPress but to stave off any further heated argument on this issue, let’s just say that both present different challenges and benefits to the user. (I enjoy tinkering with Blogger, too.)
I stumbled upon your latest post via Facebook, browsed over to here and instantly became a fan of your writing. Following you now on Twitter!
I’ve been looking around raissarobles.com and really am impressed by the good content here. I work the nightshift at my job and it is boring. I have been coming here for the previous couple nights and reading. I just wanted to let you know that I’ve been enjoying what I have seen and I look ahead to reading more.
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Dear Farah,
Thank you for encouraging me.
Raissa
Am so glad that you are satisfied with WordPress. I wish you all the best…and please take care of yourself. Am sure you know what I mean… I know your job is not like the blogging I do… Gambatte ne.
Am so glad that you are happy with WordPress. Blogging is so much fun. All the best and please be careful, you know what I mean.
Thanks, Eileen. Your words cheer me.
Raissa
I am not a computer geek nor do I know how one works with Blogger or WordPress… but I am really grateful you are here and we can now read what you’re sharing. Thank you Raissa… may you be able to enjoy sharing your literary works with us. Keep up the good work!!!
Thank you dear Raissa – am so happy to see that your blog is getting into shape. I guess we won’t need the online tutorials we planned after all. Ja ne… gambatte ne.
I used all three: wordress.com, wordpress.org and blogger.com – and blogger is the easiest abd most flexible of them all.
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congratulations and welcome to the world!
WordPress is fabulous, right? I tried it years ago and never went back.
Thanks, Francis, for the correction on Twitter.
Raissa
Welcome to WordPress! No doubt WP is the platform for serious bloggers! Blogger is just another crap! Hehe…
I disagree with FrancisR. WordPress is more flexible than Blogger. Take note, I’m am talking about the self-hosted WordPress platform (which is what this site is using).
IF you are talking about WordPress.com (free hosted WordPress blogs) then you are correct in saying Blogger is more flexible. But since this site is using WordPress.org (free, open-source, downloadable blog software) then you are incorrect and I am inclined to disagree with you.
WordPress is not for bloggers who are masters of html… Blogger can be the best site for genius bloggers and web designers, for Blogger allows bloggers to tweak everything in it, unlike WordPress
I believe you. Paragraph 1 (& 2), then in paragraph 4 you said “Tweeter” which should be Twitter
Congrats on using WordPress, the best blog platform & CMS there is