blog files organizing results to blogs gone!

It's Maundy Thursday going to Good Friday. I'm just at home this religious cum summer holidays. As you can see, this blog is hosted at geocities.com and I use ftp publishing from blogger. Now, I decided to reorganize my blog files. I had made a subdirectory to my main webhost at geocities for this blog. Back at blogger.com, I republished my entire blog to the new ftp path directory. There! All the files were in the new subdirectory including the main webpage (myblog.html). So I decided to delete the previous files from the main directory. To my horror, the links (previous posts and archives) of myblog still point to the location of the old files. Meaning, my blog still points to the old directory. Upon clicking a link, I got a
Sorry, the page you requested was not found page. I won't rewrite/edit the html just for the links to point to the new file location. That would defeat the purpose of blogging automatically and easily.

At last, after spending so much time troubleshooting the above problem, I finally made it work. The solution was not easy (for not-so-into-blogging-and-ftp-folks like me). This experience can very much claim to shout at google that blogger help pages and hints need a lot of improvement with regard to ftp publishing!. I thought it would be smooth, it's not. So there, technicalities aside and in short, it's now working.

But a little (big?) problem's just spawned. My site runs smoothly in Internet Explorer but not so in Mozilla - the previous posts and archive pages don't work in Mozilla-based browsers including Firefox, prompting me to write an advice in the blog header to use only Internet Explorer to view my blog. Whew! My blog page would really annoy users of other browsers :=). Add to that rss and atom feeds and everything in between. The solution? I have to specify from my blogger settings all the paths, file names, extensions, etc. for all the features of this blog and all the changes I made thereto. OK ok, thanks to this exp. At least, I just made a new entry ranting on this. Who said blog publishing is easy?

At long last blogger WORKS

I was really lost on why I cannot publish my blogs anymore to my geocities site via ftp. You know, I didn't change any settings. This dawned on me last November of 2006. I was indifferent , you know, 'if it's out of order, who cares!, Im not really into blogging---what with my uber-busy life' (yeah!) I never bothered to join/tinker with the beta. Im just not into it, beta testing that is.
And so, I was really voiceless last Christmas vacation (I spent two long weeks), the two previous posts were just published this unholy hour of 1:30am (GMT+8) Wednesday Jan 24!
I was hunting for some alternative blogging services, and I forgot that I've got one at spaces.live.com so I sort of tried to update it, almost to the point of making it my main blog. But as usual with Microsoft products, the site/service is not fast enough, renders badly with FF and NS. January 22, I tried republishing, again to no avail, ftp errors! My officemate kaide convinced me to switch to the new version. And so I did, or I think I did. Mind you, I really signed in with my Google account, but still, Im on publishing hell! Atlast I have the motivation to try it again, and there I clicked on the switch button, and finally, I know I made the switch. Whew!