A New Domain
I went to college, what seems like a long time ago now, for Visual Publications, which amounts to commercial design. I went there because I wanted to officially learn web design, something I had taught a lot to myself, but I knew my experience reverse engineering websites, figuring out how things worked, wasn’t going to get me jobs in the field.
What I learned along the way was branding. How it has to be cohesive throughout. How it has to look. Everything has to make sense.
You know what didn’t make sense? My website address/website name combo. Before I moved to Ghost, I just used my domain name ”skoo.bz” as my site name. It worked for me. It’s a name I’ve been called some version of for over two decades, starting with a few coworkers. That name carried into me doing karaoke night where everyone seemingly had a nickname. I was my online persona for as long as I can remember. My most recent ex-girlfriend only called me by that name, never my birth name, to the point of introducing her parents to me by that name, so that they would also refer to me the same way. It felt kinda odd in a way, but true story.
Long story short, that name and domain name combo worked for me. Then I moved to Ghost. First there was the fact I had to have a prefix on my domain, so I added the “iam” to the beginning. I wanted it to be clean, but that wasn’t a choice. Then I came up with a name that I felt exemplified my purpose here. This is my safe space. It’s my escape. It’s my peace or calm. And with that, my branding here became kinda weird and mismatched.
So, I started poking around and found I could get “acalminthechaos.net” for the good price of about $12/year. That’s actually cheaper than “Skoo.bz”, for the record. It felt too good to pass up so I made the jump yesterday and bought a new domain name.
Then came the fun part. This doofus right here wired things up wrong (I forgot the “www” when assigning it to my site), which essentially locked me out of my admin panel and left my site offline until I could work with tech support, who lives eight hours ahead of me, to get it back online. That’s why my Thursday Dispatch didn’t make it online until this morning even though I had everything written yesterday morning. Good times.
But, I’m here now. Feel free to update your RSS readers and bookmarks. I hope I don’t get any more wild hairs to move anytime soon.