Brush With Extinction

This week brought a notable milestone – the Brush with Extinction website is complete except for the shop, which is quite exciting. I know that there are tweaks that need to be made and I want to get the shop done before officially “launching” the website on the denizens of the Internet, but the sense of accomplishment is there. Another mark that was reached is that this blog has completed the transition from a free hosted blog to WordPress installed on my own webpage. I have to admit that my latent cynicism doubted the efficacy or even the actual “free” nature of the WordPress Install4Free project. I am happy to say I couldn’t be more wrong. Less than a day after I sent my request for the installation, I was contacted by an expert WordPress installer, who needed confirmation of a couple of admin items (domain name, host, login and password). After sending off my information, I had an email back in three hours, confirming that the WordPress database had been loaded and my blog was ready for use. The email also detailed the actual location of the WordPress files and the pertinent information about my wp-config.php if I ever attained enough knowledge to know what to do with them. To say that I was impressed would have been an understatement! Of course, this meant that I had to get down to the task of actually writing content for the blog so that visitors would have something to read. Website statistics for week five bore out my predictions about the typical count of unique visits (75) and page views (111) while it is just me and the web designer. The main referring domain was Google, although this week I also got referred by a domain that goes by the memorable name of 205.104. I certainly this will improve when I go “live”.

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Strict Standards: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/New_York' for 'EDT/-4.0/DST' instead in /homepages/27/d198045995/htdocs/brushwithext/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 28
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