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About 10 days ago I posted a condensed version of this on my DisabilityPride.net’s Facebook Page and had planned to immediately post a few extra details on here, but it never ceases to amaze me just how much time goes into things behind the scenes, getting them the way I want them. Yes, duly noted, I am a perfectionist when it comes to my work. If I get a vision of how I want something to look or be on my blog, I’ll spend days – countless hours – working on it. I become “like a dog with a bone” and I make no bones about it. So in my grand scheme to incorporate “Written in Faith” and “Megan’s Love Online” as sub-sites, I wanted their URLs to look like this: www.disabilitypride.net/Written-in-Faith/ and www.disabilitypride.net/Megans-Love-Online/. Seems simple enough, only not really. Most commonly you’ll see something like: Megans-Love-Online.disabilitypride.net/ So what’s the difference?
In my opinion, beyond the technical difference (ie. the first format being a sub-directory, and the second format being a sub-domain) it’s about letting your visitors/readers know which is “the parent” and which are the branches. With disabilitypride.net first, it’s stating that disabilitypride.net/ is the main site, but in the reverse example – Megans-Love-Online.disabilitypride.net/ – it looks like “Megans…..” is the main site, when it’s not.
But even before attempting to set this up, I became very irritated with “the mess” that (I felt) my online files were in. My account on my current host server is a few years old and various sites have come and gone. And although I’ve learned much in the last few weeks, I’m still learning about which wp files I need to keep and which I can safely discard.
“It took 3 days of nail-biting heart-stopping hell to get this set up the way I want it. One day my site was more like a yoyo – up, down, on, off……. A few times I feared all my content was lost in cyberspace forever. And I would almost bet that every tech support staff at my hosting company now knows my name and upon seeing it on their screen, they scream in terror: “NOOOO!!!!!! NOT HER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Some even said it couldn’t be done as I envisioned it, but….. Coming soon!……..
Reconstructing my sub-sites this way has been a goal of mine for months, while Cathy Tutton has been teaching me much of the “behind the scenes” of building websites. Mission achieved! Now on to “multi-sites” for common plug-ins!
Check it…..
