More on passwords September 8, 2006
Posted by spacemom in : Spacemom , trackbackSo, I have set up a test blog over at wordpress. Check it out!
The advantages here:
1) I can put my password back up if I need to
2) I have 3 blogs to play with, one is for family and completely off of your guys radar. In fact, if you found it, you would need to uber secret password and username to get in, so that is completely out.
3) I have a great deal of flexibility with the design
The cons:
1) if I password protect, then only those people I invite come in. I’ve invited people who I read, but that’s kind of limiting
2) $90 a year.
Wordpress:
The advantages:
1) Free!
2) I think I can set more than 1 blog, but I don’t think I can password protect everything.
3) Free
4) I can password protect some posts.
The disadvantages
1) Heavy feel to it
2) Little flexibility in the design
3) Can’t just up an password protect this site, but I can allow any wordpress user in…but that gets tricky, I force people to become wordpress users…
There is a question of WHY do I have a password protected site?
This is easy, Jay is in a small field. If you google our last name and the telescope, well the first page of results are all Jay’s work. I did google Nance and our telescope and I luck out because there is a scientist with the last name of Nance who does work with it. Yippie!
I want to protect him. And my girls.
In addition, I had a bad experience in the past. Read HERE for more. Basically she lied to several of my friends and I and actually went to a place where she impersonated someone via Yahoo and emailed things to another person (very high schoolish) and created a nasty scene. I even stopped going to one of my favorite parenting boards because I discovered she was screwing with me there….
I sometimes feel I am past that. But other times, I am worried that if I go live, she will find me and bug me again.
Until my year runs out, I’ll be posting on both sites, wordpress and here. But my decision will depend on alot…
Comments»
I like Wordpress as well - all but the fact that you have to sign up to read. But this is the issue with Xanga as well. I have considered it too, as I don’t wish to pay for Typepad any longer. I think you should do it. It’s worth it.
I would only initate the “wordpress users only” thing IF I see Ms. Wynona come back. You know how I feel about that, right Jo?
I tried to post a comment to your wordpress blog but it required an email and I don’t want to do that. Does it show publicly? I mean, I don’t mind it here b/c it’s a private blog, but I don’t want to have to give my email on a public blog.
Mariah–You can always either give a fake email address (emailme@someplace.com) or get yourself a Yahoo email address just for those purposes…