{"id":448,"date":"2010-04-28T20:47:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/driverentry.com.br\/en\/2010\/04\/28\/last-post-via-blogger\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:29:14","slug":"last-post-via-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driverentry.com.br\/en\/2010\/04\/28\/last-post-via-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Post via Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi, gang! Man, I was already missing posting something. Too bad this is yet another one of those annoying Off-Topic posts. What can I do? It’s what we have for now.<\/p>\n

This morning I received yet another warning e-mail from Blogger<\/a> saying that support for publishing via FTP is numbered. Since this feature is used by less than 5% of its users, they decided to put an end to it. But that was not the main reason I decided to stop posting through Blogger and use WordPress<\/a>. I had already been rehearsing this transition for at least two years. College and other flimsy excuses wouldn’t let me put this idea into practice. Some readers had already been complaining about the lack of a general index and the separation of posts into categories, things that WordPress does with one hand tied behind its back.<\/p>\n

As a web designer, I am an excellent driver developer, and I had already heard that WordPress used PHP and MySQL, subjects I have zero familiarity with. Initially I counted on the help of my brother, who already had a blog<\/a> on WordPress, but just like me, he also had college and other priorities. For a while I hired the services of a web designer who put my ideas about the new layout into practice, but in the end he got involved with something bigger and I was left hanging again.<\/p>\n

The idea of migrating the blog persisted, but laziness, lack of time and lack of command of HTML and CSS made me keep pushing this problem aside. I even read the official guide of the famous “I need to learn this no matter what”<\/span> series, the book “WordPress for Dummies”<\/a>. For someone used to reading books on somewhat hairier subjects, the book’s 380-plus pages were like a walk in the park. The most surprising thing for me was to discover that WordPress is a tool that requires neither practice nor skill, and that included the PHP and MySQL skills I don’t have. A powerful, flexible and simple tool. The unpleasant part of this story is that everything the book said about HTML and CSS is that it did not talk about it.<\/p>\n

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So far excellent. The 68 posts could be migrated but the layout was still my karma. Other attempts to find someone willing to do the design for me showed me that I am in the wrong job. This driver-development business is nothing. To really make money, the thing to do is Web Design.<\/p>\n

About three months ago, when I received the first warning from Blogger about the end of FTP support, was the “Now or never”<\/span> moment. My college no longer served as an excuse and little by little I got to work. After a lot of manual work migrating each post and each comment, came the layout. Thanks to the W3Schools<\/a> site, to my brother’s private Photoshop lessons and to the help of some friends, this week I managed to publish the new blog. Many things are still missing. The “About Me”<\/span> page still has nothing about me<\/span>. The training page, which will talk about the courses I offer, still says exactly this: “This page will talk about the courses I offer”<\/span>. I am still installing some plug-ins that will help with one thing here and another there. But the fact is that two days before the FTP support deadline, the new blog is already online.<\/p>\n

This post was the last one to be built on Blogger, with the main purpose of warning those who follow the original RSS that the address has now changed. The new RSS will be provided at a new address.<\/p>\n

I could not end this post without thanking the people who had the patience to put up with me and my tests and doubts about HTML, CSS and who-knows-what-else. A big thank you to my friends Lesma<\/a>, Thiago Oliveira<\/a>, Thiago Brito<\/a>, my brother Kabloc<\/a>, Willam<\/a>, Francisco<\/a>, to my wife Magda who migrated all the comments, and to all the others I don’t remember right now (I pestered a lot of people).<\/p>\n

If you didn’t know the old blog, here<\/a> are the pages of the old retiree.
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