Influence on the ScuttleButt

I started to blog circa August 2008. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, how to do it, what I needed tool wise, anything. I researched on my trusty computer and decided to go with Blogger. It was first and foremost free and that’s why I chose it. My blog is a lot of cutting and pasting of other articles on TV shows I watch and like to make comments on. It’s fun and was going along great. However, I did notice that other blogs had a lot of things that I didn’t know how to do in Blogger.

One of the first influences on my swtich to WordPress was from Capsun. You can visit his site, Capsun’s Corner. He does a lot of blogging about politics and about Hawaii. Really he blogs about any topic that suits his fancy. I don’t agree with a lot of his politics but I sure have learned a lot and enjoy his blog a great deal. He answered all my questions I had about the switch to WordPress. To tell you the truth, he is the reason I decided to make the switch. So that’s why I did it and haven’t looked back. I will always be grateful to him and I wish him the very best with his blog and his up coming marriage.

Capsun subscribes to another blog who is my second influence with WordPress. Quilly blogs about a lot of different topics. She is a wonderful writer and her topics are mostly on the lighter side. She makes them fun and entertaining. She even has a contest every Monday that is great to play. She also answered all my questions I had about WordPress without any hesitation. No Capsun, I wasn’t double checking your answers to me, but just getting more opinions. LOL Quilly’s site Quilly’s Pacific … Paradise? is great fun and always entertaining.

The last and most important influence is from Bert. You can visit either one of his sites Web Considerations and Bert Hixson. I bet I have have emailed him 100 times and each and every time no matter how redundant, technical, lame, or confusing I make my question, he always answers. He has fixed my theme to what I want and has basically made me understand blogging much better than I thought I ever would. I had so many questions to him on a daily basis that I suggested in one he take Super Bowl Sunday off. Just knowing how busy I was keeping him, let alone his other customers and his life in general must have been overwhelming. He took it off and I’m glad he did. Anyway I couldn’t have struck it richer. He is a wealth of information. Yes he does charge for big changes but it’s well worth it. He also hosts and I’m going to switch to him very soon. I urge you to check out his sites.

The thing that amazes me the most, is I was a total stranger to these three people and from all the help they have given me, you would have thought I have known them for years. And what else is striking is I have never met them in real life but being in such contact with them over the internet it’s like I have. I’m grateful to you all and hope we have an everlasting friendship.

A Hui Ho