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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Cutting The Cord

If you hear someone refering to cutting the cord, they might be talking about the birth of their child but what they could be talking about is having the cable TV turned off. The package deals that are supposed to save you money really don’t save you anything. What about those terrific packages, that  include the…

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Over The Air

The first thing you must do has nothing to do with the Internet and that’s get an antenna. If you still have the old one on the roof that one will do fine. Rabbit ears on top of the TV may work but not well. Use this in conjunction with a digital TV tuner. If you…

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TV From The Cloud

Streaming To Your Computer The second part of this endeavor  to end the cable expense is getting programming from the Internet. This can be done a couple of ways. The first is watching TV programs on you computer. That’s right, there are many TV programs and movies you can watch on you PC, Mac, laptop ,…

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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.

CSS

If you want to customize your WordPress site the most important skill you must learn is CSS (Cascading Style Sheet). CSS is the most important element of a Worpress theme.

Teaching Yourself Tech

A little more the twelve years ago I began my quest to learn computers and the Internet. It all started with a terrific show on TechTV (then ZDTV) called “Call For Help“. It was a show for those just beginning to use computers and the Internet. TechTV was sold and resold. Now called G4 it…

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What is SEO?

SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” It is the process of getting traffic from the “free,” “organic,” “editorial” or “natural” listings on search engines.

.Com vs .Org

It is not true that you cannot use your own domain name with Wordpess.com. For a fee you can use a domain name you already have or you can purchase a domain from Godaddy true WordPress.com.

WordPress Plugins

Although there maybe some plugins installed in WordPress.com this video is only about plugins you install on a WordPress.org site. You cannot install plugin on WordPress.com.