OK, you’ve modified the design to your liking and you’re ready to start posting. Give a little thought to this, because if you have an email subscription service installed, ask yourself what would your subscribers want to read in the email they receive? If you are a business, you may want to limit your personal posts (or start another blog for family).
Twenty Ten theme with only a background added.
The new default theme is called twenty ten and it is light years ahead of the old default one. From within the admin you can change the header or add your own. You can change the color of the background or upload a background image. Often, your webmaster will do this for you, but it is fun if you want to do it yourself.
There are a gazillion plug-ins available for WordPress – so many in fact, that the choice can be overwhelming. I’ve narrowed it down to those that HELP.
A blog consists of the pages the public can see, and a back-end admin that only you see. Both run from a database. You don’t actually ‘see’ the database, it just runs quietly in the background doing its thing.
The admin is accessed via a browser and is used to enter your content and images – it controls your entire blog. Pages, posts, galleries, polls, surveys, whatever.
The front end is where the public sees the formal presentation of your content in the form of nicely formatted images, galleries, etc. Continue reading
Well, not exactly. Just as there are websites and websites, there are many different kinds of blogs. I will be addressing WordPress, as it is by far, the most popular. Great strides have been made in the development of the WP blog in the last year or so, with security and ease of use being the most prominent.
By request, I will be starting a series of tutorials on how to use a blog, widgets in the blog and other blog stuff. As more and more of us use blogs, and options, plugins and widgets become more numerous, my goal is to make it a wee bit easier for you. Please sign up for the blog now to receive posts by email.