The Blog’s Growing Up

After 5 years on the free version of WordPress, I’ve decided to see what the fuss is about with a self hosted blog. Check out my new site – chadscrookedhouse.com. It  should be an exciting year. I’ll be rolling out an action plan for the big scary facade restoration next week!

I’ve had a few reasons. The biggest being curiosity. I want to see what happens if I make the site look nicer.

Then I’ve been a little frustrated because I set up pages for a house tour a year ago and for some reason the links never worked. I’ve ignored that for a solid year, but it seems important to set up a site where old content is better organized. There were no pretty pictures in my first 3 years, but what I was doing back then was more interesting than cleaning out closets.

And, I redid my house while single and in my twenties (until a year ago). I’ve noticed that a lot of bloggers get paid or comped with free stuff. Getting paid is a violation of the terms of use of the free version of WordPress, and they could delete the whole blog if I got caught cheating. The self hosted version allows me to explore opportunities for shameless commercialism… or hopefully simply the opportunity to get comped now and then for stuff I already believe in.

Anyways, please check out the new page, follow me there, and let me know if you have any advice!