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31 Days to a Better Blog & WickitPixie Theme Updates

Jenny — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:30:49 +0000

My site is coming along finally after a full day of working on it. I started my 31 Days to a Better Blog. My next step is a lot of reading. I will continue with my progress updates, so you can click on the link directly above this entry. I still have a few bugs to work out with my theme, and I’ve already figured out and worked through some bugs.

I have to thank Chris Pirillo for the theme. Check out his Live Feed sometime.

Now for some light reading before bedtime.

Making Money by Blogging and creating Wordpress Themes

Jenny — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:41:12 +0000

Since I was laid off on June 29th and I got over the “omg I’m a failure” thoughts (which took all night) I woke up the next day feeling several tons of stress missing from my shoulders. That .. felt .. GREAT! Then it all made sense to me. I was going to follow my dream and start my own business making money doing what I love best; blogging and customizing wordpress themes.

Ken was a huge help in getting the business paperwork going. Any day now I’ll have my official Tax ID # attached to my business name “Jenny Berry Innovations LLC”

My whole family has been cheering me on, telling me this is what I was meant to do. I have the fear of failure, just a little, but a lot less than when I went into work everyday and tried to play the politics game. As the weeks went by I started feeling better and better finding myself less sick than usual. As a modivator to get out of the house I signed up at the YMCA to do water aerobics.

Everything feels better now that I don’t have to answer to a boss anymore. I’m self disciplined enough to pull this off, and like I said previously, it’s something I love to do. I’ve been blogging since 1995 at my personal blog and used it to dive into understanding Wordpress. I don’t know it all but I was born to be creative and in my own time as a hobby I would make themes for other people. I never thought one could get paid doing something fun that they enjoy. I’m quickly finding out that this is what I was meant to do.

Here’s to success!

I moved hosts and I’m so happy

Jenny — Sun, 04 May 2008 05:18:01 +0000

So, a couple of things. I’ve been staring at the computer screen for way too long, but that’s besides the point. I finally did something that I’ve been meaning to do for a while. After extensive and exhaustive research I’ve finally found a hosting company that I would be happy to give money to. Within the hour I had seen more customer service and personal touch than I had ever seen with any hosting company. I had to pick my jaw up off the ground. What did they do? Well, because I’m not savvy in transferring database files the feature that really caught my eye (well, what feature isn’t great? Seriously?) was:

We’ll move your old data for you
That’s right. If you’re migrating from an existing host that utilise Cpanel/WHM, then we will move your data and files for you. Simply contact our support team and provide us with your existing account information with your old host, and we’ll do the rest. Once complete, we’ll let you know when to update the DNS or nameservers. Can’t get better than that, eh?

So I did. I put in a ticket and said, move my stuff! Please. My previous host (IX web hosting, horrible horrible company, stay away from them) didn’t even have cpanel set up correctly so I got a support email asking how I would like to proceed. That was around the time I was leaving work last night so instead of replying I packed up my stuff and headed home. By the time I got home (remember, I live 3.8 miles away from work) I had another email saying

“I just moved everything manually to your new remote server and everything seems to be working, I hope that was ok?”

Um, gee. Was that ok? ZOMG you people are awesome! And quick, dang my site loads fast and such. I’m very happy with my new business relationship.

I’ve been up all night looking at design and getting idea’s. I do this from time to time. Just cuz.

IX Web Hosting ISP Problems this morning

Jenny — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:22:01 +0000

Seems that my hosting company, IX Web Hosting, had some ISP problems this morning causing www.jennyberry.com to be down. I was right in the middle of updating my new DukuWiki in which I’m converting my current MediaWiki over to. It’s going to take some time, but I really like the new engine of DukuWiki so much better the MediaWiki. There are a ton of plugins to go along with DukuWiki too.

Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to. You won’t see much on my DukuWiki yet but give it time.

Technology I love

Jenny — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:05:52 +0000

I love technology. What I love more then technology is the creative outlet the tools of technology allow me to have. When I take on a project, like my school wiki for instance, I can tweak and custom fit that piece of technology to suit whatever goal or solution I might be seeking at that time. The best aspect of these projects, is actually learning how things work. Once learned, the sky’s the limit and the creative juices keep flowing to the next project or learning experience I have the privilege of working on.

It’s just exciting stuff, and to do it for a job almost feels like cheating in a way. I mean, who’s supposed to love going to work everyday?

When I ponder my dream of working at Google, this is how I see myself there.