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How to Create Your Own Website Easily with WordPress
Mar 12th
Creating your own website is becoming simpler and faster all the time. Very little knowledge of the technologies and programming languages behind the web is required. Almost anyone with basic computer skills can create their own website with relative ease.
A variety of easy to use yet powerful tools have been introduced over the years to make it feasible for people to create and publish their own websites. Some of these have disappeared as new and better applications have been released. Others have stood the test of time and have been constantly improved over time as new updates are released.
However, a new web creation powerhouse technology has been steadily gaining acceptance and loyal fans over the past several years. That product is WordPress. WordPress is a free application that comes in two basic flavors. One is a hosted version, which allows you to create your own website already built-in to an existing hosting account — that’s WordPress.com.
The other flavor allows you to take the same WordPress program and install it free on your own server or a server of your choice from outside, allowing you to host your own WordPress website. The downloadable version is available at WordPress.org.
Many people think of WordPress as only a “blogging platform”, but it is actually much more widely useful than that. With WordPress, you can publish any type of website, and it doesn’t need to look like a blog at all. WordPress can handle, organize and publish any type of date to the web with no problem.
Moreover, because WordPress sites are so well structured, Googld and other search engines love WordPress sites and tend to give them high rankings. The only caveat is that of course the content itself must be valuable.
Your WordPress website can be easily and inexpensively customized with a range of graphical themes, or templates which change the site’s look, as well as plugins, which add to it’s functionality, both of which are available at many sources on the web. This means that you no longer need to start from a blank page when creating a new website, but rather you can plug in different existing pieces which are already proven.
Plus, there are many independent experts in WordPress who are happy to help out on a paid or even non-paid basis on forums, etc., to help you get your website up and running.
You can create your own WordPress sites without hiring outside experts in most cases. Once you learn WordPress, which is not that hard, you will have the freedom and flexibility of being able to create your own websites anytime you want.
Learn how to use WordPress yourself and a world of opportunity will open up for you. You will no longer be at the mercy of outside vendors like webmasters, programmers and designers to make changes on your existing sites or to create new sites. You will be able to create an unlimited number of sites yourself at no additional cost. Learning WordPress is not that difficult if you get the right guidance.
Wordpress 101 – What Is Wordpress And How Does It Work?
Mar 6th
So you are ready to start a website but not too confident about the format to be selected out of the many available. Chances are that you have heard about it as a blogging platform only, but you can put it to several uses, other than just for blogs. You could create a website or CMS (Content Management System) using Wordpress and its many benefits are as follows:
Having fantastico in the domain control panel would add to the convenience of setting up Wordpress and it is just a matter of a few clicks and your website is ready and functional. Manual set up can be done easily if you do not have fantastico as this takes little time if you just go by what they ask you to do. In case you feel awkward with both these options, get some one to do it for you. This is a very affordable job and not time consuming, especially for someone who has the right experience.
Updating an old website which was created and designed by another person can be a costly task as well as a frustrating experience since you have to consider designer payment, and wait till they come back and then finish the assignment. Using a system like Wordpress is much more user-friendly and easier to learn. You could refurbish your own site quickly and do not have to waste time waiting for the designer to show up.
One of the biggest advantages of Wordpress is that all website updates and changes could be conveniently outsourced. Simply set up a virtual assistant with a unique set of username and password and she logs online to work on your site. No more of the constant checking whether you have put up the latest version of the site or whether you have mistakenly overwritten someone else’s text.
The Wordpress program includes Categories and Archives which are intrinsic to the system and add to convenience of use.
Websites which are updated often are great favorites with search engines. It is highly likely that Wordpress and the nature of blogs would make you revamp your site often and this could mean high search engine rankings for your sites. The ranking of your site gets an upward raise when you are found even by the blog search engines.
As part of built in service, you are eligible to get RSS Feed when you build your website using Wordpress. Every time you add new content to your site, your visitors get to know as they can subscribe to your RSS feed.
This is a very successful way to make your site popular with increasing the number of people coming back for more knowledge and solutions. What should give you just a few ideas on how you can start using Wordpress to create a website that draws in more traffic and makes your life easier.
BlueHost – Is the web host company I use to create my site content and distribute my blog all over the internet. It features an easy to use “script installer” and POOF your done. All you have to do then is login to your wordpress panel and get started. If you need ANY help contact me and I can help step by step.
7 Tips To Write Your Most Popular Post Ever
Mar 1st
One popular post can bring your more traffic and links than a month’s worth of your usual content. In this post, I want to set you a challenge with the potential to launch your blog into the stratosphere. So make sure to use these tips and make the next post you write your most popular post ever.
1. Time is more important than talent – After blogging for some time, I’m more than convinced that writing has nothing to do with talent. Assuming you have acceptable grammar and vocabulary, writing is more about editing and coming up with ideas. Obviously, the longer you spend on an article, the better it will be. With the extra time spent, you can refine, format and fill your post with plenty of value.
2. Use your best idea – I’ll be honest here. I use to have a tendency to keep my best idea for later use. I won’t recommend this to anyone. The whole point is to try writing your best post one after another. Here’s the rule of thumb. The more your post help people solve their problems, the better it will do.
3. Write in short paragraphs – The visual appeal of your blog’s content can be just as important as the content itself. Write your blog posts in short paragraphs (no more than 2-3 sentences is a safe rule) to provide visual relief from a text heavy web page. Most readers will skim a blog post or web page before committing to read it in its entirety. Text heavy web pages and blog posts can be overwhelming to readers while pages with a lot of white space are easier to skim and more likely to keep readers on the page.
4. Brainstorm headlines – A good headline should always give out an idea or hint to attract readers and visitors to your site. Do note that it’s bad if you give out the entire story in the headline itself as there would no longer be any reason for people to read the article then. To cut the story short, any headline that does not give indication of an idea or hint will actually deter prospects.
5. Invest plenty of value in your post – Ever bookmarked or voted for something without completely reading it? We’ve all done it. It’s because of the ‘Wow’ factor – the presence of enough promised value in one place gets the reader enthusiastic about the post straight away. Instead of 5 tips, why not share 50? Instead of 9 resources, why not 40 or more?
6. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder – If your post looks good, it will draw readers in. Take the time to add images, thumbnails and formatting to what you create. Make your post a visual feast. With so much web content presented in a bland way, your post is guaranteed to stand out.
7. Write like you talk – Even if you aren’t a natural born writer, you can write for your blog. Just write like you’re speaking to your friend or to yourself.
Nik Imran is the writer of IMakeABlog, a blog that provides guide on blog setup. You can check out his guide on how to install wordpress.
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