Archive for May 25th, 2007

5 Ways to Customise Your Blog Design - Beginners

There are five ways to customise your blog’s design in anyway you prefer.
1. Template Driven Design
WordPress uses templates to generate the pages dynamically. You can control the presentation of content by editing the templates using the Template Editor tool and the Template Tags.
2. Template and File Editor
Every installation of WordPress comes with a file editor [...]

3 Ways to Publish Your Wordpress Blog - Tips for Beginners

There are three tips you can use to publish your wordpress blog for beginners.
1. Feeds
The RSS 1.0 (aka RDF) (http://purl.org/rss/1.0/), RSS 2.0 (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss) and ATOM (http://www.atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/atom-format-spec.php) specifications are fully supported by WordPress, and further more, almost any page on your weblog has an associated feed that your readers can subscribe to. There are feed for [...]

How To Install Your Wordpress Weblog For Beginners

This is how you can install your Wordpress blog for beginners.

You can have your wordpress weblog locally installed.

This means WordPress is designed to be installed on your own web server, or shared hosting account, which gives you complete control over the weblog. Unlike third-party hosted services, you can be sure of being able to access [...]

Basic Blogging Tips - Beginners

Starting a new blog is difficult and this can put many people off. Then again other people who have blogs with no comments or visits. You want to stand out from this crowd of millions of bloggers and you want to be one of the few hundred thousand blogs that are actually visited.
So here are [...]

What is a Blog? For Beginners

A frequent question I get from my students is “What is a “blog“?
“Blog” is an abbreviated version of “weblog,” which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information.
A blog is a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles or other Web sites. Blogs range [...]

What is Wordpress? For Beginners

This is also a frequently asked question by my students is “What is Wordpress?”
WordPress is a state-of-the-art personal web publishing system or platform (a.k.a. Content Management System or CMS) written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. WordPress is used to manage frequently-updated Web content, [...]