For a while, I have wanted to make some changes to Tombrarian. Mainly, I want to move it to my own host so that I have more control over look and functionality and to be able to learn more about CSS and other design options. A few months ago, I found a host (Bluehost) and began fooling around with a personal site. I created a space for Tombrarian and planned on moving it at the beginning of the year but got busy and never got to it. I am optimistic that I can get to it soon and figure the process itself is a topic worthy of Tombrarian. I want to learn from the process and can share that with other people who may be thinking of moving from a WordPress site to their own hosted site.

In chosing Bluehost, I picked a few brains for suggestions and a couple people recommended it, so I decided to go with it. Although I haven’t done much with the site yet, I have no complaints about Bluehost. It was easy enough to set-up and they have a desktop client that allows you to drag and drop files. The other option is to uplaod them through their website which is slow and burdensome if you have a lot of files to move. Bluehost supports WordPress and a few other blogs, so setting up a WordPress blog through Bluehost was very easy.

I chose the Blueline 1.0 theme because the CSS code seemed pretty straightforward and I tweaked the color scheme and some other basic elements. I’ll include an image in addition to the link because I am sure I will be changing it and want to preserve the changes to see how the site develops.

Speaking of the link, I secured http://www.tombrarian.net. It’s live now, but content free. After I play with the look a little more, I will try exporting the content from this site and upload it into the new site. So look for that move hopefully sooner rather than later.