Another Newby with a long question

[bwerner]

Hi to everyone and Happy New Year
it’s Werner a German, living in Italy, Rome, with a site about meditation and yoga and personal development.
I’m new to this very good forum and was quiet looking around before introducing myself.
I don’t use WP right now but it is my intention to do so. After I’ve surfed around to gather information, I guess that WP is not that easy to use for a person not very savvy on computer skills, php and all these stuff, like me.

Sorry for my questions right here, maybe it isn’t the right place to ask questions but I would have a lot of them.
The mainly reason why I want use WP is to change my whole site for the question of generating more traffic to my site.
Right now, I’ve a main site on meditation like said before, and on a sub-domain a web-log from Blogger hosted on my domain.
That what I want to do, is import my blog to WP and let it continue as a blog, and in the same time I want extend WP to become also my main-site with static pages on my principal domain by preserving as much as possible my old site design.
Later then would I like to integrate a discussion board on a second sub-domain to create a community, but that’s another thing.

So, I was wondering if that will be easily to realize for a dummy like me, or if it is at all impossible to use WP for two domains on the same server.
For that what I’ve understood so far I’ll need to install WP separately for every domain; but is there then any advantage for a site with static pages to use WP?
Or maybe I should install WP on my main domain and transfer and integrate my whole blog into the main site?
Please if someone could give some clever advice how to do that considering also the question of Se-placement and ranking for site design.
Greetings to all and again happy New Year
Werner

[bwerner]

Seems that I'm not that welcome here in your
forum , nobody cares.
Okay no problem there are a lot of other forums.
Werner

[afidie]

Hi Werner,

Welcome to the forum...!

Not really! Actually we have a problem with the internet access lately, due to the earthquake in Taiwan, that damaged the undersea cable, hence causing much havoc on this side of the world

Another thing is, we are in a long public holiday in Malaysia (FYI, most forummers here are from Malaysia (or SEA), so most of them are away.

Yes, you're right! the WP is kinda tricky for beginners, like me, as I'm still struggling with it for the last few weeks. However the people in this forum are very helpful, so keep on posting! but pls expect a slow response for this few days.....

Afidie
Malaysia

[WordpressConsultant]

Hi Happy new year to bwerner,

What afidie mention is right, it is not that we are not welcome you by responding to your post here, just that the situation is not allow us to post the reply, we always got time out for replying the forum post until lately the situation is improving.

To give you the real senario how worst it is here, I am actually got to change my working hours from 9am-5pm (GMT +08 00) to 8pm - 3am (GMT +08 00) as we find this is the best time for our connectivity to internet. Other then this hours, I will say I am pretty upset with the internet response time. Thanks to afidie to explain on our situation.

Okay, let's go into your question here. I haven't done any migration from blogger to wordpress before but I did so a search and found out there are at least 5-10 references you can check out on how to migrate your blog. Since they are someone already publish a very details steps by steps guide so I won't rewrite in this forum but just give you the direct access url. You can visit the following sites for reference:

Site 1 | Site 2 | Site 3 | Site 4 | Site 5

Since you are new to Wordpress blogging, I like to give you some reference on good forum post here, read the wordpress blogging for beginner guide here and the most FAQs ask question checklist.

There is no problem for you to install wordpress blog in multiple sub-domains or sub-folders. To get the quickest way to install multiple blogs is to use cPanel fantastico installation option. Read full post here on how-to.

FYI, Wordpress is build for SEO optimise, it is definite to help you to get search engine index your site if you have blog installed. It is depends on your intention whether you want to retain the static main site with sub-domain / sub-folder blog installed. However, if you don't intend to retain the main site, you can install the blog directly to the main domain. The choice is yours.

With that, I want to welcome you to our forum and wish you have a good start for year 2007.