Personal blogs

[kidakaka]

Simple (or so I thought) and easy instructions in setting up your own blog in less than Rs.500 a year!!

1. Purchase a .com comes for somewhere around Rs. 450.00 per annum, a .in comes at half the price.
2. Once that is done, buy the Manage Domain rights for your domain. This costs an additional Rs. 45.00 per year.
3. Now start a blog on the blogger platform
4. In the Settings->Publishing->Advanced settings, go to the your own domain name, and provide the same.
5. The complete instructions are given here, but this is what you do simply -
   1. Enter you domain name in the Advanced tab
   2. In your Manage DNS section of domain dashboard, make a CNAME entry for your domain to point to ghs.google.com
6. It should take an hour and two and Voila!!

Copy pasted from kidakaka.com

PS - hey Biggie, the Edit functionality of these forums is really cool!! *thumbs up*

[The_Big_K]

On a side-note, how many of us will be interested if we add a blogging engine to CE so that everyone can have their own blogs on CE?

@Kidakaka: Good to hear that. You'll jump with joy when we do our next upgrade, trust me!

[kidakaka]

Awesome idea Biggie!! Seriously ... that'll be great

[xheavenlyx]

Its a good idea but it can also get bloated after some time and might need extensive moderation. A big task but doable.

[The_Big_K]

Originally Posted by xheavenlyx

Its a good idea but it can also get bloated after some time and might need extensive moderation. A big task but doable.

Yep, I agree. Its very much doable and needs a blogging engine to be integrated with the forum.

Next upgrade will also see a better 'profile' system and ability to send 'public' messages (something that's present in social networking sites).

We'll NOT moderate them. We'll only moderate the posts on the forum.

[kidakaka]

my god . Public messages, eh? Are you sure? You know how Crazy engineers are

[The_Big_K]

Originally Posted by kidakaka

my god . Public messages, eh? Are you sure? You know how Crazy engineers are

Good Idea or bad idea?

[lady malady]

It's a great idea!

[kidakaka]

Being a skeptic, its akin to giving all the users access to the "wall" command on a public server .

Go Figure! Or let me put it this way, how many of us actually read their personal messages in Orkut??

[The_Big_K]

Originally Posted by kidakaka

Being a skeptic, its akin to giving all the users access to the "wall" command on a public server .

Go Figure! Or let me put it this way, how many of us actually read their personal messages in Orkut??

Yeh, true. Let's keep this on hold for sometime. Turning CE into a social networking site & maintaining all 'hi/hello' junk isn't really what we want to do.