The biggest reason was that using beckyandjared.com is really hard to post from. In fact I (Becky) have never learned to post blogs that way, so I would always have to rely on Jared to post the blog. Also, posting the blogs took a lot of "power" so without a high speed internet connection it is impossible. This is usually not a problem with our superior M-Star internet that we have in our apartment but we recently went to my parents house. Well, lets just say that we couldn't post our blog until we got back.
Another, little reason is that I was getting tired of our black background. Jared participates a lot in the blogging process and loves the black. But, I have been jealous for a while now of all our friends cute backgrounds. So, I have been bugging him about getting cute backgrounds of our own. As you can see I haven't quite got my way, but wait and see. In a couple weeks, we too will have a cute background.
So, let us know what you think! Do you like our new location? Do you like the black background? What can we do get you to read our blog?
(Jared's Turn, only read if you're bored) Okay, so here's the real deal (none of this cutesy pansy wansy stuff... this is the real technological reason why. We have been using Apple's website and blogging software called iWeb since the start of our blog. It initially started as our wedding website which gave more info about our wedding and a digital copy of our announcement and such. But then we got married and decided we would blog about our life since people ALWAYS asked "How is married life?" So we started a new blog (dubbed Site 2.0 on my computer) and went to work. After a while, we started adding tons of pictures and we had lots of entries. This is where the downfall of Apple's software lies. Apple iWeb works really well and fast if you have their $99/year MobileMe service. Basically, iWeb creates a big huge file of your website. If you have MobileMe, you can just say publish and it will put it on the service. If you DON'T have it, you have to export the files and folder structure (which takes a long time for a large site), subscribe to a different comment service, enact a script that automatically replaces tokens with the comment link, upload all the files and make sure that nothing is broken. It was quite a tedious process and one that took me a few weeks to perfect. Anyway, as Becky said, when you have a slower internet connection, it takes FOREVER to upload all the files and such. And instead of being an incremental export, it had to export EVERYTHING each time (which, considering the size of our site, got annoying to wait for). So now we're moving to blogspot to make it incremental and to use some of the other Google services that go along with it, like Web Albums for pictures and such. So hopefully it will be much more easier to navigate after the switch.
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