well, as luck would have it my old host charged my account for another year despite the fact I said not to . . . I’m getting a refund but the good news is that my account was still up so after going in and getting lost I stumbled upon the databases that had all of my posts and stuff.
here’s my understanding of a mysql database: when something is created in the site such as a blog post or a comment the information it placed here.
what I’ve come to realize about many of the files that you would find in the htdocs or core directory is that they are in essence all uploaded to your site.
so, in as many different formats as I could I downloaded this information or exported it to my computer. here’s the loverly part, I can’t find where this information is stored on my new host either and I know that my new databases have normal names so I’m not so sure that I can just put this information in there as easily as you can the uploaded stuff. so that’s where I am present moment, certainly with hope but unfortunately without a clue :| the good news is that the new host seems to have a very good support forum so hopefully someone with more than a clue has already addressed this topic and it’s just up to me to read up.
so what’s next? well once I have the function to where I need it to be I’ll then start making it beautiful. the current theme is “Thematic” it’s the parent theme that I’ll most likely build the new child theme to function with; it seemed like the simplest thing to just use this one from the beginning, it’s very simple and clean; but I do find myself wishing that I had a little more pizazz going on visually, especially since this is the official second post of this “new” blog. well, I make a lot of wishes and many if not most of them don’t come to be until I make them so stay tuned and be patient, believe me when I say I’m looking forward to this waaaayyy more than you ;)