A Wahm Trying to Homeschool Also!

Blogdumps had a small problem two weeks ago and all posts were lost, it was not only a hassle in we could not get into our blogs, it was a lesson in not typing your posts directly on your server!

When you type directly into your blog you have no way of backing up your posts and saving them somewhere else.  Someone told me to email myself my posts but I haven't figured out how to do that.

So, what do you do?  Well, I have always been told you should type your posts in a program like Microsoft Notes, which comes free on any computer that has Windows.

I hate this method!! It seems like double work, because in Notes you can not underline, bold, link anything, or any other different types of editing you would like to do.  If you want to do these activities you have to do them once you past your post into your blog.  Double the work!

If you type your post into Windows Word, you can add all the links, bolding, bullets, etc that you want.  Right into your post and save it, copy and paste.  Ta Da Done!  Problem with this method, for some strange reason, Word tends to add some crazy stuff to the beginning of your text and if you don't check your post in html, you could end up with something that looks like you are posting in Russian!

My problem with all these methods is, I like to type when I am thinking about, like I am right now.  I am typing this right into my blog.  CRAZY I KNOW!!!  You would think I would learn, but no!!!  Well, I sort of have learned, because what I will do after I am done typing this, is, I will copy and paste this post into a Word document and then save it by name and DATE.

See, this is where the Lesson Learned comes in.  Not only then will I have a copy by name of the article, but also by date, so, when Blogdumps goes down and loses a weeks worth of posts, I will know EXACTLY what posts were lost because I also have the dates on my posts that I have saved!!  See, lessons learned!

No matter how you do it, you should learn to save your posts some how!  Otherwise you could be like me and searching for NEW posts to put on your blog, when suddenly posts are lost!

Happy posting!