My new domain

I finally set up a domain name for my photo site and my blog.  My photo site at Smugmug is now http://www.canghuixu.com although http://canghuixu.smugmug.com will still work.  My blog is now accessible at a subdomain, http://blog.canghuixu.com.  I used GoDaddy Custom Domains for Smugmug to register my domain and it worked pretty smoothly, just by following the instructions at the Smugmug site.

Assigning a subdomain to my blog at Blogger was also fairly straightforward.  In the control panel at GoDaddy, I added a CNAME entry for alias blog  and pointed it to ghs.google.com  Then I went into settings for Blogger and told it I was my blog had a custom domain, blog.canghuixu.com, and everything went smoothly.

The GoDaddy account came with some kind of free email account.  It took longer for the email account to become active than the domain name.  Once it was active, it was pretty easy to configure my gmail account to access it.

I'm curious as to whether my blog being under a separate domain, rather than being at blogger.com, will make it accessible in places that block blogger.com.  We'll see.  If you are someplace where blogger.com is not normally accessible, and you can read this, please email me or leave a comment.