KnotGypsy's Journey of Creation: Nothing is Ever Easy!

DEAR READERS:

I specialize in beaded micro macrame jewelry, sometimes branching out with other techniques i.e. beaded crochet. I have been making this jewelry for about 10 years. I design and hand make my jewelry to be durable as well as beautiful. I hope you agree.

For those of you who would like to learn how to "Make Your Own", I am also producing patterns (tutorials) of my basic designs. Check Category "Patterns" and "patterns and kits" for more info...

And, remember, you can click on images for a larger view.

If you are interested in checking out my cooking blog, see "KnotGypsy's Kitchen Chronicles". I talk about my adventures in the kitchen and share my favorite recipes...Hope you to see you there.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Nothing is Ever Easy!

The Blogger Help instructions, "How do I use a custom domain name on my blog?", for publishing to a custom domain name seemed so simple...

However, I cannot seem to get it to work. I followed the instructions "How do I create a CNAME record for my custom domain" and created the CNAME record 2 days ago. Then, whenever I change my Blogger publishing settings to reflect the custom domain name and try to access my blog, I get "DNS not configured - no match was found".

Some of you who tried to view my blog over the past 24 hours probably got the same error message....sorry. I left those settings in hopes that as time passed, the DNS servers would update and reflect these changes. I have decided to switch the Blogger settings back to the "blogspot" url for now. At least the blog can now be accessed.

I have been searching the "help" forums both on Google and Bravenet (where I have my domain name registered), to no avail. I cannot seem to figure out what the problem is.

I have a support ticket in (to Bravenet), but the replies I am getting are not helping...

First, they ask me about nameservers, but the Blogger Help instructions do not mention anything other than CNAME's. So, I replied to the support tech with a link to those instructions. Next, I get them telling me to create the CNAME as per the Blogger Help instructions. I replied that I had already done that (as I had mentioned when I first submitted the support ticket!). And I only get one reply from them per day it seems.

Arrrgggghhh!!!!