But Blogger is so easy!!!

I'm sorry about the lack of posting/good posts...I have been trying to figure out how to move to my own domain and it's taken all of my free time.

I bought the domain "selfdefinedstudent.com" through Google and it's now registered with GoDaddy. I bought a hosting service through GoDaddy as well. I can't really figure out how to point my domain to my GoDaddy account and I can't call customer support while I'm at work because, well...I'm at work. If I had a computer at home, then this wouldn't be a problem...but I don't.

Now...it's possible that my domain is pointed to my host...and that I just don't know how to make my stuff show up on the website. I uploaded the site map for this blog with the ftp thingy, renamed it as index.html...but I think something's missing...I'm swamped...overwhelmed...and I have PMS, so you can add angry to that list.

I love Blogger. It's so easy. It makes so much sense to me. How would I even write new posts at my new domain? Would I have to upload them and link them? Do I even have the software to make a web page without having to do it in html code (which I can't do). How do I use blogger templates for my website?

UGH!

I'm might just call this all a big waste of money and forget about it. But first, I'll call tech support.

Damn you, Tiburones!

I have a problem with StatCounter, my new love.

Over the weekend, my blog got 15x more hits than usual. All the hits appear to be coming from a google image search (from non-U.S. countries). The image search included "Great White Shark, South Africa," so I figured that people were linking to my blog via an image on my first post. In a sudden bout of panic, I deleted the post that contained the picture, thinking someone might sue me. It didn't change the number of hits...and I think this is because there's still a page in Blogger called "http://deaddinos.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html."

I don't want a few hundred people visiting my site because they want to stare at a shark! I want to know who's visiting and I can't sort through hundreds of stats. I can't figure out how to fix this...I mean, it's not bad that people are visiting, but the only thing they see is a blank page that says "no posts match your query." That won't exactly turn people on to my blog. I think this is a permanent problem...HELP!!!

These were the referring links and the number of hits from each link:

297 images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.duiops.net/seresvivos/galeria/tiburones/Great%2520White%2520Shark,%2520South%2520Africa.jpg&imgrefur

96 images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.duiops.net/seresvivos/galeria/tiburones/Great%2520White%2520Shark,%2520South%2520Africa.jpg&imgref

49 images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.duiops.net/seresvivos/galeria/tiburones/Great%2520White%2520Shark,%2520South%2520Africa.jpg&imgrefurl

17 images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.duiops.net/seresvivos/galeria/tiburones/Great%2520White%2520Shark,%2520South%2520Africa.jpg&imgre

6 images.google.com.ph/imgres?imgurl=http://www.duiops.net/seresvivos/galeria/tiburones/Great%2520White%2520Shark,%2520South%2520Africa.jpg&imgre

5 images.google.co.in/imgres?imgurl=http://www.duiops.net/seresvivos/galeria/tiburones/Great%2520White%2520Shark,%2520South%2520Africa.jpg&imgref

The new good news: I'm faxing my application for SVP today!