My Tips To Blogging In Your Own Domain
Posted on March 13th, 2008 |Visited 988 times, 1 so far today |
When I said I had NO help in setting up my blog in this domain - of course you don’t think that I meant it literally?
Of course I had help and I’m going to share with you some of the things I learn over the last few days.
Some of them will seem very basic for the experts so think of this as the idiot’s guide. Besides, I need to record this down because I will definitely forget it by next week.
1) Get Lilian’s simple 15 steps guides.
If not because of this guide, I would not attempt to do it myself. It’s not all self-explanatory but at least if you’re not sure, you know what to read on.
2) If you’re still deciding on your host, get one with Fantastico.
Not all comes with this but it makes installing Wordpress easy (the alternative is uploading Wordpress using “ftp” - and you don’t want to go there…)
3) Buy and pay your domain name straightaway.
I actually bought another name but didn’t confirmed the payment till the next day - and by then it was “stolen”! Lucky me, I actually regretted my original name and the domain name thief actually “saved” me…
4) Research and Read
I didn’t ask anybody for help because I wanted to try it out myself (even though it actually took me AGES to figure out that my cPanel and Wordpress are not related…) but of course, there are loads of kind folks out there who has written guides on what to do - read, read and read!
So far, it is still confusing but all in all, it’s been kind of fun!
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6 Responses to “My Tips To Blogging In Your Own Domain”
By papajoneh on Mar 14, 2008 | Reply
Nice collection of tips. Good for anyone. If ever you need an assistant on wordpress, just buzz me. Just for info as a friend here
Oh thank you PapaJ! Kau tunggu saja…I’ll be buzzing you soon
By chegu carol on Mar 14, 2008 | Reply
i like the header.
are you still experimenting with the themes?
LOL, yes…and for the next few weeks more I think.
By eshark on Mar 14, 2008 | Reply
Ya.. PapaJ is the expert on WP, however if you happen to need some kind of graphic helps/support, do buzz me too.
You guys are so cool! Thank you for the offer - for sure ada tu nanti because I am really blur when it comes to all this
By Hannie on Mar 14, 2008 | Reply
Jewelle, thanks for the tips and sharing on how you’ve got started with the new domain. I’m in the middle of doing it too. Gonna annouce pretty soon.
By Hannie on Mar 14, 2008 | Reply
Jewelle, try my site: glad2bhere.net
still new la of course.. but I’m working on it. Wish me luck.
Hannie! You made it!
By jppmom on Mar 17, 2008 | Reply
I think I’m lucky then..hubby helps with my blog but good also you put the tips out so that I can learn it myself
You are very lucky to have him to help you!