How To Start A Blog

The First Blog Post – Part Two

7 September 2009

You will need to add a title, using any of the main keywords you have (it helps to get it ranked for the terms you want to rank well in, in the search engines) and have the title give a reasonable description of what the post is about – you can’t judge a book by its cover, and you can guess what it’s about from a bad title.

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The First Blog Post – Part One

6 September 2009

Posts are added in virtually the same way as the pages, in fact, they are added the same way, the only real difference is the posts being dynamic compared to the static pages.

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The Power of Blog Plugins – Part Two

5 September 2009

As you get to know how the blog, widgets, and plugins work you’ll probably want to look for more plugins to make your blogging life easier. Some of it will be trial and error (read reviews first) but you can always drop plugins that don’t do what you want, and just move on to something else.

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The Power of Blog Plugins – Part One

4 September 2009

Plugins are more like add on scripts for your blog. Quite often the results of the plugin will be visible to the person looking at your blog, but, they can just as easily be running in the background improving your admin area.

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Picking a Blog Theme

3 September 2009

Is your blog theme something that’s high on the agenda when you’re creating your new blog? A lot people thing about them, see what’s about, and then tend to go off with a free one that’s vaguely along the line of what their site is about, but is this the right way to be doing it?

In this article we’re going to look at where a blog theme should be in your list of priorities, the look and feel you should be going for and whether there’s any real difference in one you might buy over one of the many free blog themes available, and finally we’ll look at how to get it installed…

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