We're Baa-aack

Whew! That was a close one. But problem solved, and pretty easily. Thanks to everyone for looking into this to help me. When I logged on yesterday to post, all I could see when I went to view my blog was a pink screen. I thought it was a fluke, or that maybe there was too much traffic at that time, causing some delays or difficulties. So I waited an hour or so and tried again. Same pink screen. Then I started to get worried. I tried again another hour later and, you guessed it, same thing. AAAAHHH!!! My blog disappeared! I typed in a couple links I knew by heart, and got to your blogs with no problem. So then I knew mine was in trouble.

I emailed Blogger this morning and told them my blog was gone, and asked if they could help. Not too long after I received an email with a couple of links to some information on fixing "broken" blogs. It also suggested that if I could get to my dashboard (which I could) but not to my blog, to try republishing the blog. I tried that and ... voila! It worked!!! I'm back up and running.

Now, for the second part of my inquiry to Blogger. I asked them if there was a way to backup our blogs to prevent completely losing them, and if there's a way to get a hard copy of them. Haven't heard back from Blogger on that yet, but a couple people have suggested some alternatives to that problem. We could write our posts first in something like Word, where we can save them, and then copy and paste them onto Blogger. In that case we would have our text, but not the pictures (which most times is what really makes the blog). But text without pictures is far better than nothing at all; right? Or, I was told that after you write your post you have the option of emailing it. So you could email it to yourself to have a hard copy. And last, there is probably a way to burn it onto a cd, in which case you would have the entire thing, pictures and all. But honestly, how often would we really do that? After every post? I don't know about you all, but I don't want to waste all those cd's by burning a new one everyday.

If Blogger comes up with a better suggestion, I'll let you all know. In the meantime, do whatever works best for you to keep a copy. What a shame it would be for any of us to lose it all.