My Wordpress Blog is set-up at http://www.jermyntoh.com!!

At the request of several readers, here's how to set-up a WordPress blog and migrate your old entries from LiveJournal.

1) Decide On A Hosting Plan

2) Purchase A Domain Name

3) Using Fantastico

4) Login In To Your Blog's Admin Panel

5) Import Your LJ Settings with One-Click

Read the full write-up at http://www.jermyntoh.com!!

Been fiddling with the admin panel of my WordPress blog and I can't decide what theme to choose!! If you know basic code, you can further customise down to the smallest details rather easily.

And the widgets!! You can add all kinds of things to your blog like "live" Twitter updates, forms, search tools, visitor analytics info and more!

Sigh ... this is gonna take longer than I thought given so many choices.

Some pics of the back-end.

After considering this for a few years, I've finally decided to set-up my own domain with my blog running on WordPress. WordPress has a new import facility that allows LJ users to import all their entries + replies.

Its been a stressful time searching for hosting providers and reading various reviews to make a decision. Was about to go with HostGator as that received the most positive reviews but once I converted US$ to RM for 2yrs it was way more logical to go with a Malaysian service provider. They come out to 30% cheaper and they also provided easy set-up of WordPress using Fantastico.

So over the next few weeks, I'm gonna satisfy the tech geek in me.

Stay tuned as I share the trials & tribulations of this process.