Drawing First Blog

The First Blog

No, this is not my first blog. My first blog is...(drum roll, please,) Moralde.com! The domain moralde.com took some time to get and I almost did not get it. The first time I searched for it about 6 months ago, it was not available. Obviously another entity, presumably also a Moralde, has taken possession of it for sometime. Having known this, I have started to consider alternative domain names for the first blog that I'll be calling my very own. Of course, I could use 'noelmoralde.com' because it is available, but I somehow feel like I am exposing myself body and soul if I use that. So I listed other alternatives like moraldebris.com, moraldecree.com, moraldelirium.com, moraldemeanor.com, moraldesign.com, moraldesiderata.com...and so on.

Some of the possible domain names I listed were available, while some are priced in the thousands! I did this preliminary search while I was preparing my credit card and paypal accounts so I could make online payments for my domain name and hosting. And I had a bit of a hard time with the credit card and paypal verification thing, which I believe was a blessing in disguise because by the time it was done, I found that moralde.com is already available. Had the paypal verification process been quick and easy, I may have not gotten moralde.com.

Domain Registrar

I purchased the moralde.com domain from godaddy. And this was after I did quite an exhaustive research on which domain registrar to buy from. Looks like every domain registrar has yeah and nay sayers. I however stayed away from domain registrars without both yeah and nay sayers.

Hosting

Having purchased my domain name, I did not opt to have it hosted at godaddy but at Lunarpages. I have had some experience with lunarpages cpanel which I find easy and comfortable when I setup my friend and boss' website. Besides, Lunarpages was offering a really cheap promo hosting at the time. And they had this no limit offering on both space and bandwidth.

So, long story short, moralde.com saw the light of day on May 30, 2009.

Henceforth, I shall be chronicling my progress with moralde.com. Beginners may just find some nuggets of wisdom here and there from which to base their next moves and decisions. Moralde.dot com, btw, is a wordpress blog. I had earlier been torn between using drupal or wordpress. On testing however, wordpress flowed like a breeze, while drupal presented me with a headache the first time I tried it. From thence, I grew to love wordpress the way an american loves America (Note: I am not american).

Till the next post dudes. Feel Good Always!