Moving Blog Content to New Website

Hello, everyone.

I am in the process of moving all the content on this blog to a new website. This includes all my old posts and all readers' comments to those posts and my responses.

Actually, the moving part is done. The process was pretty easy and nothing appears to have been lost.

But I'm still "unpacking" and setting up some new "furniture" now. Hopefully, within a week it will be ready to go live. When it is, I'll update this blog with a link to the new website.

Although I like the familiarity of using Blogger, it is hosted by Google. Over the past few years Google has made noises about further restricting content it considers "adult." Such content is already behind a "content warning" page. That already makes it more difficult for pages to indexed not just by Google but other search engines. Of course, Google make billions on hard core porn. They aren't about to make that difficult to find through their normal search engine result listings. But have your own blog with a few nudes of yourself and they want to mark you with a Scarlet Letter.

There is also the issue of mobile devices. According to a KPCB mobile technology trends by Mary Meeker, significantly more people in the United States now spend more time on their mobile devices than a desktop computer (51% to 42%).

Furthermore, although this blog tests well on mobile devices, the blog itself has limited functionality as a website (URL length limits, page limits, limited customization of non-blog post pages).

I've therefore decide to self-host with WordPress. They have a number of "responsive" themes that are pre-designed to work across various platforms: desktops, iPads and cell phones. I've look at a number of them and they test well on Google's own mobile-test viewing app.

Integrating the blog itself with the website is also much easier than with Blogger and without the artificially low limits on URL length and number of pages. The same template the blog uses can easily be used for creating a webpage and then customized to my liking.

I was considering allowing open posting but that will lead to too much SPAM, So there will be a requirement for registering and logging in to post a comment. Hopefully readers won't mind this too much. I mean, come on. I'm baring my soul to, not to mention my body. So the least you can do is put up with the minor annoyance of registration. Use a junk, throwaway email account if you like. I'm not going to be responding to emails anyway. Just readers' openly-posted comments.

As with Blogger, comments will still be moderated. But with registration, users will have their own unique identification to show verification that a posts is theirs and not someone spoofing their user name. There are also a couple of widgets that will allow readers to login using any of a number of internet accounts they have, such as Facebook, Yahoo, Google+, Twitter, etc. My kid brother is helping me with that. Readers will also be able to have their own avatar show up with comments if they use Gravatar.

I have also taken to heart the suggestions of readers and have a few "About Me" pages that go into more detail on why and how I started to be spanked by my stepdad, how my he and my mom once attempted a reconciliation that led to me receiving embarrassing weekly "reminder" spankings on my bare bottom, how I was regularly spanked during the divorce process after attempts at reconciliation failed and why I reluctantly agreed to be subject to discipline at the hand of my aunt in my mid-20s.

A few readers have pointed out that this current blog doesn't adequately provide a timeline of my shame. Using a format similar to Facebook's timeline, I will create one for the new website.

It's also been suggested that some common questions be answered in a sort of FAQ format. I'll try to work on something for that as well.

Lastly, I'll have links to my other platforms, such as Facebook and Flickr. FYI: I don't use Facebook much, just maintaining a presence for the sake of friends and family. So please don't "Friend Me." Don't take it personally when I don't respond.

One of these, Experience Project, will be shutting down in a few weeks. If you haven't read my experiences there, please do. I owe a debt to that website and its readers for helping me begin to come to terms with my shame. I can even appreciate and especially want to thank the number of male readers who insisted in polite but firms words that I deserved to be spanked in my teen and college years. Some of them pointed out why they felt that way, and if they disagreed in the way my stepdad disciplined me, they specified how they would have.

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