September 23, 2007
- What Do I Write About
Your website should express your personality and knowledge on whatever subject you choose. Selecting something which you know nothing about merely to attract advertisers with high paying keywords is usually a losing proposition.
First, your reader, if searching for information, will already know more than you. Second, if you know nothing about the subject, you will be required to expend a lot of effort to get something to write about. (…)
August 27, 2007
- Installing WordPress on 1and1.com - Followup
Today, in response to several readers who noticed, I edited the fifth and final post in the series to complete the instructions for installing WordPress on 1and1.com.
If you have completed the previous five steps in this series, you should now have a working WordPress blog. (…)
July 22, 2007
- Installing WordPress on 1and1.com - Part Five
Loading WordPress, Final Host Settings and Testing the Installation
We will be using an FTP client to upload WordPress to our website. If you don't have an FTP program, there are a number available. I use FTP Desktop, and really like it. Others include CuteFTP and Filezilla. (…)
July 13, 2007
- Installing WordPress on 1and1.com - Part Four
Downloading WordPress and Linking to the DataBase
All of the steps I have described are much faster to do than to describe. After you have done it once, you will just fly through the installation process. (…) - Installing WordPress on 1and1.com - Part Three
Creating a Database on your Host (1and1.com)
The next step we must complete is the creation of a database for WordPress on your hosting account. While the instructions given here are specifically for 1and1, the procedure should be very similar for any host. In any event these instructions should give you the information necessary to tackle the job on your own. So let's get started. (…)
July 12, 2007
- Installing WordPress on 1and1.com - Part Two
Choosing a Domain or Transferring an Existing Domain
We will begin this exercise by logging into our 1and1 account. This is done by going to http://1and1.com, the clicking "Customer Login" on the second line in the upper right corner of the opened page. Enter the userID and password you received when you set up your 1and1 hosting account in Part One of this series. Then select the 1&1Home package to get to the page illustrated below if it is not already visible.
Then click "Manage Domains" in the left column to get to the window shown below where you can obtain new domains or transfer your existing domains. (…)
July 11, 2007
- Installing WordPress on 1and1.com - Part One
Selecting a Host
Installing WordPress using the one click process offered by hosts such as BlueHost by way of cPanel or their own control panel featuring Fantastico is an easy process. (…)
April 24, 2007
- Making Money from Your Website
If you are a beginner, you may be thinking of ways that you can make some money from your website - att least enough to cover hosting and domain fees. Unfortunately, most companies offering affiliate plans or pay per click advertising programs require a certain minimum level of traffic before they will allow their ads on your site. (…)
April 22, 2007
- Free Website at Blogger
Nothing could be easier than getting a free website at Blogger. And if you have a domain and a web hosting account, you can host your Blogger account without the disadvantages of being on a subdomain of the blogspot domain. (…)
April 21, 2007
- Selecting a Web Host
You may at first wonder why we are discussing the selection of a web host before we have a domain to use with the host. (…)
