Cross-posted from my WordPress blog.

I bought a new URL today: mooretoons.com - which essentially redirects you right to my WordPress blog.

I still have not decided if I am going to use WP.com or get a host and install the wp management system there. I really like how Barry's Hereville site is turning out, and he has offered to share me his infinite wisdom (at which he arrived in a Classical Greek way - through much suffering) in modifying the Comicspress MS to my own purposes. There are a lot of arguments in favor of the latter, but one big counter-argument is Time + Energy > Making Cartoons. I have a lot of web development experience, but all that has really taught me is what a GIANT ASS PAIN it can be. I'm like YoYo Ma in those old Apple commercials: I wanna plug it in and start using it.

But I'm not afraid to put in a little blood, sweat, tears, earth, wind and fire. So long as the end product is a site I can use for several functions.

Hopefully you are all asleep at your keyboards from sheer boredom induced by this post. Feel free to re-read it during those nights of inexplicable insomnia.

Hey, Peanut Gallery! I need some advice.

As I migrate to WordPress from Livejournal, I have been thinking about how I want to use WP's features to my best advantage. There are two options, as I see it:

• Stay with wordpress.com: The advantages are that I could move all of my cartooning stuff onto one site, through purchasing more space and CSS editing. I get to use "mooreroom" as an all purpose URL (the actual domain name is owned by someone else.) WP would be my webhost, blog, and home for Wanderlost stuff (not counting Modern Tales pages) and In Contempt stuff (not counting Webcomics Nation pages). The disadvantage is that I cannot cross-post from WP.com to LJ, where I have a fine list of friends that I enjoy interacting with.
• Install WP on my own webhost: The advantage is that I can customize the blog any old way I want outside the predetermined CSS styles, adapt the blog to more comics-friendly navigation, and cross-post to LJ. The disadvantage is the loss of "mooreroom" and all the stupid work involved. Also, In Contempt and Wanderlost are at two separate webhosts, so I'd have to choose one. I'd choose In Contempt, because the Wanderlost URL is "sheldonthepig.com" — the old name for Wanderlost.

The other concern is directing the In Contempt and Sheldon domains this-a-way. Is that possible? I'd rather that if someone entered "incontemptcomics.com" or "sheldonthepig.com" (or just clicked on old links somewhere out there), that they'd wind up over here. Whether "here" is at WP.com or the centralized webhost.

Anyone have any thoughts, opinions, preferences, or advice?

Inspired by Ann Rice's recent faith testimony in the Washington Post, I wrote a lengthy response at my new blog.

And, yes, I am slowly making the switch to WordPress. It has less to do with the LJ strike than with wanting to eventually incorporate WP features in a comprehensive website of my work.

But I will cross-post at LJ even after, because I love my LJ friends (I wuv you, yes I do, yes I dooo!) and the community aspect of the service.