Tag: Blogging

Blogger

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Up until May 1, 2010 Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP….

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WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a blog web hosting service provider owned by Automattic, and powered by the open source WordPress software, It provides free blog hosting for registered users and is financially supported via paid upgrades, “VIP” services and advertising. The site opened to beta testers on August 8, 2005 and opened to the public on November…

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Tumblr

Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme’s HTML.

Easy CSS

To do this tutorial you must have a “WordPress.org” site or “WordPress” running locally on your computer. You must have the “Chrome” web-browser or “Firefox “with the “Firebug” extension installed. Go to w3schools.com for a list of CSS commands.

Instant WordPress

Last month we used Bitnami to install WordPress locally on our computer. Installing Bitnami is reasonable simple but I found a much easier way. You can use “Instant WordPress” which take no effort at all. Double click on the .exe file. I think ask only one question, “where to install”. You choose anywhere on your…

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Build A Worpress Site

This month we will all build a fantastic WordPress.org (not WordPress.com) site from scratch step by step and we will finish the entire site well before the two hours. To do this without actually having web-server we are going to install a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server plus WordPress software on our computers.

Magazine Themes

If you don’t want a website that looks like a blog you have to options you can create a page and make that the homepage or you can use a magazine theme. A magazine theme is a blog but the post on the front page are not layed out in the traditional linier fashion. All…

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What You Need For .Org

To run a WordPress.org website you need, a web-server running Linux and the Apache Web server. Most hosting services offer Linux  running Apache as a choice. It must have the PHP scripting language installed also the MySQL database. This configuration is called LAMP. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.