A Witless (& Potentially Unhelpful) Introduction
Blog.
Very rarely can a single word convey so much information in so few letters. Though it is not necessarily “new” as a means of expression or a way to convey information, it is becoming increasingly popular at a rate similar to that of a California wildfire ravaging a sunburnt forest on a scorching July day.
Unfortunately, such a popularity makes it hard to be more than “just another blog”, making it important to create yours so as to stand above the rest in whatever industry or subject it is related to. This is something worth noting, and is critically important if steadily increasing readership is an important factor to you. If readership is not an important factor to you, then you don’t really understand the purpose of having a blog and should consider some other hobby such as underwater basket weaving or become an astrophysicist, neither of which do I really recommend.
For those who are strong at heart (or just plain bored) who’ve made it to this point, I welcome you to what I hope to be an entertaining & very informative exercise for creating a blog that dazzles your reader & keeps the pool of saliva on their keyboards, as they wait for more, quite fresh.
The most important thing to remember is that there is no REAL wrong way to create, which should set your mind at ease and ultimately make your blog much better.
The tools you’ll need to create a blog in the same fashion that this exercise teaches requires wordpress, a html-editing program, such as notepad, frontpage or dreamweaver*, an ftp program, and wordpress installed on your hosting server.
The most important two tools I recommend are a pencil & a notebook. These two items will make your time much more valuable & help you keep all of your ideas within reach at all times of the day, particularly those sleepless nights when all you can think about is how to make your blog pretty or what you plan to rant about tomorrow.
Check back next week to begin your adventure into blogging via wordpress.
Specifically:
(1) how to get & load wordpress on your server &
(2) how to plan a website.