Chris Abraham walks you through how to join the fastest-growing and most elegant free blogging services, wordpress.com. Go from the simple acts of joining all the way through set up and administration. Become a blogger in less than and hour. Most folks only need the first 15 minutes to get you started. Chris is a [...]
A blog post can be just a few sentences or many paragraphs. Some blog posts include an image and no text, whereas others might contain a complete tutorial or an online lesson teaching readers how to accomplish a task. Think about your audience (or at least the audience you want to have read your blog [...]
Word Press uses an open-source visual HTML editor called TinyMCE. The Visual Editor (the figure below) takes care of all the code behind the formatting of your words. If you’re not interested in learning how to hand-code HTML, you’ll want to use this editor to post to your blog. The following article cover the Visual [...]
No matter what blogging system you use, posts always have three elements: a title, a body, and an author. WordPress adds a few more things to the mix, but the basics are the same. The rest of this article goes through the elements of the post. Title Titles are like headlines in a newspaper. A [...]
Your other option is downloading the WordPress code from WordPress.org and installing it yourself. Because you’re hosting the blog yourself, you decide what plug-ins you’ll use, and you have complete control of all the files. What’s more, pointing a domain to your installation won’t cost you anything extra (above and beyond your Web-hosting bill and [...]
WordPress.com hosts WordPress blogs for free. Hosting your blog on WordPress.com frees you from having to get your own hosting space and making sure that your Web server has the software that WordPress needs to run. It also means that your blog is ready for traffic spikes associated with popular posts. The team behind WordPress.com [...]
How to improve articles In this step by step article you will learn how to transform dry, unformatted articles into more attractive and readable text. Step 1: The wrong way to format articles In this sample page you can see an article without any formatting. This article was copied and pasted into an html code. [...]
Ideally, you should be rewriting the whole article. The rewriting process takes about 10 minutes if all related materials are prepared. It is important to rewrite whole article as it literally guarantees that you will have the one and only copy of this material (technically) and probably by meaning which will ensure great benefits from [...]
Quick Rewrites A quick rewrite should not take you more than a couple of minutes. Here’s what you could do: • Rewrite the headline. • Add related content to your article – whether it’s an image, some extra information or links to useful, related sites. • Rewrite the first paragraph. • Rewrite the last paragraph. [...]
The first thing visitors to your blog will notice about your blog posts are the titles of those posts. With that in mind, you should consider a few issues as you compose the title for each of your posts. Write titles that ✓ Arouse your readers’ curiosity: Just like an advertising headline, your post title [...]
