The way this blog looks is determined by the Wordpress Theme I am using. At first, I’ve just left the theme alone and created some content to get my blog started. Now, it’s time to give this blog a personal look. Here’s the last screenshot of my blog in its original state:

I’m going to install […]

Now we have a blog. All you need to make it a succesful one is to write exceptional content. We’re going to explore various ways to improve the blog’s appearance, publicize the blog, search engine optimization, contextual advertising, plugins, web2.0 features, and so on…but all that really matters is the content. It doesn’t matter how […]

Now you’ve got your first blog entry published! Open a new Browser window (by the way, I don’t recommend using Internet Explorer - you’re better of with some other browser.
Now, just type http://xxxxx.xom in the address bar and voila! There’s your brand new blog. It should look pretty much like mine at this point.
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OK, you’ve got your cool domain name figured out, and you’ve hit “sign up” on Bluehost.com or some other hosting service. I recommend Bluehost for the reasons mentioned earlier - I’m not affiliated with them in any way. Now it’s time to set up the host to get your blog up and running as soon […]

The second most important decision: The Domain Name. This is the unique name that identifies an internet site, and will become part of your URI (Uniform Resource Identifier = web address). Once your blog takes off, you’ll be stuck with your domain forever. It’s no good to change your domain in the future, because you […]