Unexpected results with domain change

by neville on February 22, 2005

in Domain Mapping

Well, I thought all was ready to go with the change over to my new domain for the blogs and photo albums I have on TypePad.

Not so - unexpected results.

I’d made all the changes needed re DNS at GoDaddy, my domain host. After some email correspondence with their extremely helpful support team, all looked set to switch over to the new domain, mapped so that my TypePad sub domain would show as www.nevon.net/[blog or photo album name].

So I made the change late this afternoon by activating the setup in TypePad I’d already prepared as per the domain mapping instructions and republished only my main blog (just in case…) to see how it all worked.

A bit of a mess, actually! The blog appeared when you go to the new domain address, showing the new domain, but the layout and appearance were a complete disaster. It looked like the change had somehow knocked out the style sheet, so what you saw was a site reminiscent of what websites looked like in the mid 90s, just as the web got going.

I quickly reverted back to how it all was before, a process that took about 10 minutes. Then, a quick support ticket email to the always-helpful Melissa at TypePad support.

Stay tuned…

Previous post: New URL coming

Next post: Domain mapping still doesn’t work properly

Twitter Latest
Latest Comments
Latest Posts
Latest at NevilleHobson.com
- Complementary tools to listen to Twitter
  For listening to conversations on Twitter about your brand, your client’s brand or anything else you need to be paying attention to online, you are literally spoiled for choice. I think one of the simplest yet more effective tools available is Twitter search (known as Summize before Twitter acquired it), shown in the screenshot above [...]
- Tackling ivory towers and silos
  Downsizing is the undisputed global management trend of the moment, says The Economist in a feature in the current edition that discusses what some companies are doing to reduce costs beyond the job cuts that have been making the news recently. The Economist describes what companies like Nortel have been doing to cut costs. Action [...]
- FeedDemon the smooth operator
  FeedDemon – the best desktop RSS feed reader for Windows, in my view – will soon be out in a new version 2.8. As is typical in much software development these days, beta versions of the new release are publicly available for testing or trying out, always with the caveat that they are beta versions [...]
- Motrin: Where’s the authentic voice?
  Earlier I posted about the Motrin kerfuffle and the opportunity it presents brand owner McNeil to listen to customers and engage with them. Reading the apology text again that McNeil posted on the Motrin home page (above), there are a few things about it that bother me. First of all, it’s an image not text you [...]
- The Motrin storm: breathtaking speed and scale
  Four years ago, an online storm erupted over the best-selling bicycle lock brand in the USA and how anyone could open the lock with a simple ball-point pen. During a 10-day period, a groundswell of commentary and opinion about Kryptonite locks spread from enthusiasts talking on bike forums to the mainstream media, to a product [...]

click tracking