The Power of Retail

I’ve been blogging since August 2004 on of travels and travails, a blog I started when we moved to Bangalore from Providence, RI. After having lived in the US for several years, on and off for college and work, I found Bangalore to be the perfect place to live in India. In a weird way, it was very cosmopolitan and very American, with so many of its professionals working for US companies and the maximum amount of expats in any city in India (this was then, now I believe it is Hyderabad with the maximum expats).

We’ve been living in Bombay for the past two years now and my blogs have quadrupled since then. I started Weaver in July 2005 and The world around us in July 2006, when blogspot had been banned by the Indian government. The Power of Retail is my first blog that is not powered by a free hosting service, and is totally mine.

It’s taken me too long to get this off the ground, but I do want to make this my primary professional blog, and keep of travels and travails as my personal blog, Weaver as my technology/telecom/innovation/trends blog and The world around us as my local retail blog.

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Well, I managed to set up the FTP server, and download some more interesting themes, thanks to the great support forums at BlueHost. This one is called Green Marinee and has been designed by Ian Main, an Australian web designer. It’s a brand new template and I like its bold and fresh look.

If you’re considering getting your own hosting system, it should definitely be BlueHost, which already has over 240,000 domains. I signed up for two years of web hosting and got a free domain registration thrown in. This was my first attempt at setting up a website and the support team at BlueHost is simply outstanding. My mails to them were answered within a couple of hours, always with precise and direct answers. I loved their one click Fantastico set up for WordPress and all of their support pages.

I’m waiting for WordPress to add additional plugins so I can download them, so far I only have Akismet and Dolly, which is of no technical use, but I still adore. Since I have another WordPress site, I am already familiar with all the basic WP issues, except that there are limited options in this version of WP. The free version of WordPress is loaded with themes, plugins and options, and until I get the hang of more complicated website handling, my site is going to be pretty simple.  

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Amazing! I can’t believe I managed to set up my own website…….It was actually really simple, but one can say that only in hindsight, right?

Here’s to a whole new world of blogging!!

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