On Sarah Lewis’ new WordPress QuickStart site there is a set of excellent videos to help even the most non-technical person get up and running with a WordPress site.
Sarah is a blog developer and one of my co-moderators on the LinkedIn Bloggers forum.
Note that the site is about installing a downloadable WordPress.org site, not a […]
For anyone who wants an up-to-the-minute briefing on blogging as seen in a WordPress world, the WordCamp 2007 event in San Francisco is being live-blogged by several bloggers.
Among others, there are posts by Tris Hussey on the BlogWorld & New Media Expo blog and his own A View From the Isle site.
Stephanie Booth has extensive […]
One of the challenges with a lot of the WordPress themes I check out is that while they look very nice from a “pure design” (if there is such a thing) viewpoint, they are often not going to be easily adaptable to how a range of small businesses may want to present themselves online.
Sure, there […]
There’s a silly song some of us used to sing in years gone by:
There was an old man named Michael Finnegan
He had whiskers on his chinnegan
They fell out and then grew in again
Poor old Michael Finnegan
Begin again.
And I suspect my quoting just that first verse will for some readers today mean the rest of […]
When I first started to learn about the WordPress blogging platform, it took me a while to work out that what most people would call elsewhere a template for a website or blog is known in WordPress Land as a theme.
WordPress explain the theme terminology this way:
Fundamentally, the WordPress Theme system is a way to […]
While the focus of this blog is on how businesses can use blogging - and other social media - as part of their general business operation, rather than primarily as a direct income source, it is important for business bloggers to know what tools are available to assist in generating income via a blog.
For WordPress […]
As more and more businesses establish blogs and as the mainstream media carry articles about business blogs, it is becoming much less of a challenge for me to help business owners understand why a blog might be good for their business.
But one issue that I find comes up a lot is that of finding the […]
This post illustrates, from my own very current experience, the challenge I see for non-technical people, like me, in using one of the main blogging platforms, WordPress from WordPress.org. And that probably applies also to any open source blogging platform which does not have paid hosting and support.
Over the past week I’ve spent more time […]
In this sixth post in the Blogging Platforms series, we look at one of the key issues to be considered in choosing a blogging platform, the kind of support available and its reliability.
The possibly self-evident assumption in this post is that a user of a paid, hosted service should be able to expect more complete, […]
In this fifth part of the Blogging Platforms series we look at the different needs of different types of users, the potential bloggers, and some of the considerations to be taken into account by and for the different types.
Because identifying the type of user is a key element in choosing the right platform.
And it is […]
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