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Posted By admin on May 21st, 2009

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Domain market have come to invade bloggers. Short and English word domain name with high traffic are sold at a high price. Since good blogs generates heavy traffic, domain marketeers buy blogs for a decent amount of money.
There have been some notable blog sales, and one of the primary way of evaluating the price of [...]

 

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6 Steps to Make a Blog

Posted By admin on June 27th, 2009

You don’t need web design firms that tells you making a blog could take weeks and costs a thousand dollars.  Even if you don’t have advance technical skills, if you follow this 6 Steps to Make a Blog, you’ll definitely be blogging within two days with less than a 100 dollars!

I encourage every blogger writing on popular blogging sites, free or paid, to make a blog that not only could make you money, but could make your blogging experience a success.

People think they have to spend thousands of dollars and weeks of development time to have a functional web blog. But this is an outdated way to think about it. These days, there are a variety of content-management tools available to simplify website creation and management. WordPress is one of those tools. Yes, WordPress, the blogging system. You can create a highly functional, easy-to-manage web blog using only WordPress and a just bit of technical skills.

For the the past three years, I follow this step-by-step approach every time I create a blog from scratch.

First step. Register Domain Name and Get Web Hosting

The domain registry costs around $10 per year, and the hosting will cost you between $7 to $ 100 per year, depending on the web hosting options. Add the two and that’s the total cost for web domain and web hosting for one year of blogging. Popular domain registrars like GoDaddy, and 1and1 can give you this in about one hour. So far, the fastest domain registration I had was when I bought at Dynadot, my domain is up the soon as I checked out.

If you don’t have the money to shell out that much, you can opt for free web hosting services. Be reminded though, read reviews and pick the one that you think suites you.

Second step. Install a MySQL Database on Web Host

This sounds complicated, but it’s a five-minute operation. If you don’t know how to do it, I’m sure your web host has a quick and easy guide for it. Normally, you need to go to the database section of the hosting control panel, select create, and then give it a name and password.

Third step. Install WordPress on Web Host

In case you’re not aware, WordPress is free. Download the Wordpress files, open wp-config.php and insert the database name and password you created in the previous step, and then upload the entire WordPress files onto the web host.

Fourth step. Launch and Configure WordPress

When all the WordPress files are uploaded to the web host, you’re ready to run the installation process. Go to your web address (the domain) and follow the steps for installation.

Fifth step. Customization and Appearance

Log in using your admin account and customize the appearance and behavior of your blog to your liking.

Last step. It’s Time for Content

The most important part. The reason why you are doing this. Content. Start with a few pages of content telling your readers on what to expect on your blog.

That’s it!

Enjoy blogging!

Upgrade to Wordpress 2.8

Posted By admin on June 11th, 2009

Wordpress released it’s latest version, codenamed Baker, the 2.8. What do we expect from this release?

The major difference of this version from the precious releases is that 2.8 have the following features:

  • Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors
  • Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
  • Recognize Expression Web 2 as IIS
  • Pass name to sidebar, footer, and header get actions
  • Widget API

Features that didn’t make it into version 2.8

  • Some default shortcodes, maybe the most popular 10 from WordPress.com
  • oEmbed support, tied in with shortcodes
  • Better UI for post revisions, maybe an optional field to say what changed in a version
  • OAuth support
  • GeoData for posts, comments, attachments, etc.
  • Template tags to do everything the custom gallery on ma.tt does
  • Menu editor
  • Unbalanced tags across more and nextpage tags (Ticket 6297)
  • Sitemaps by default
  • Refresh of the importers (LiveJournal was refreshed)
  • Gallery post_type
  • Versioning of template edits
  • Documentation links for functions used in currently edited template
  • MPTT (Modified Preorder Tree Traversal) for hierarchies
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