Getting Started

How To Become A Blogger Step 6: How To Choose A WordPress Theme For Your Blog

July 29, 2010 Category: Getting Started

Your blog’s theme is a simple way of managing your sites layout, stylesheets, and typeface. Your theme will determine how you want your readers to view your blog posts and your website as a whole.

Thanks to the open source nature of wordpress there are thousands of free blog themes that are ready to go right out of the box. Each theme is also easy to modify to better fit your needs.

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How To Become A Blogger Step 5: How To Upload Files To Your Webhost Using FTP

July 22, 2010 Category: Getting Started

FTP” meaning File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, such as the Internet

In other words it’s a way to take files on your computer, and upload them to your host.

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How To Become A Blogger Step 4: How To Install WordPress On Your Website

July 19, 2010 Category: Getting Started

How to install wordpress to your website using the 5 minute wordpress install process. What tools you will need and the step by step walkthrough of the installation.

After this walkthrough your new website will be up and running and visible to the world.

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How To Become A Blogger Step 3: Where To Get Web Hosting

July 15, 2010 Category: Getting Started

What is a web host? Why you need a web host? How do you set up web hosting? What is a Nameserver? How do you link your domain name to your web host? How do you re-assign your nameservers to your web host?

All that and more in Step 3 of this ‘How to become a blogger series’.

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How To Become A Blogger Step 2: How To Register Your Own Domain Name

July 14, 2010 Category: Getting Started

Registering your own domain name is cheap and easy. It’s also an important step to becoming a blogger. It will look more professional and give users an easy way to remember how to find your website.

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How To Become A Blogger Step 1: Why You Should Use WordPress

July 13, 2010 Category: Getting Started

So you think you want to become a blogger but you don’t know where to start.

This first video tells you what a blog is and what is the best blogging platform to use. It will also explain why we have chosen to use “wordpress” as our blogging platform.

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Megan Hurley: From Barista to Blogger

August 21, 2009 Category: Getting Started

At some point in his or her life, almost everyone will land a minimum wage job. This is especially common for young adults who are looking for something to supplement their busy school schedules.

3 Ways to Get Started Blogging For Free Right Now

July 02, 2009 Category: Getting Started

Have you ever wanted to start a blog but didn’t know where to start. We are taking a look at WordPress, Blogger, and Squidoo. Three free and easy places to get you started blogging, because when you’re just getting started there’s nothing better than free.

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What we do here – Hello World

June 29, 2009 Category: Getting Started

For a long time I’ve wondered if it was possible for a person with no experience to make money online. Many of the people online promote that they got rich but won’t tell you how they did it until you purchase their program. While it may be true that they are getting rich, I’m not there yet and don’t have money to waste on their opinions.