Categories, Pages and Links – Are you using them properly?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If you’ve been following my series on Wordpress.com then you’ll know that we’ve looked at how to start a blog with Wordpress.com. And learned how to customise it by changing to your chosen theme, we’ve also looked at what [...]

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What is a Widget and How Do I Use One?

So What’s a Widget Then…
Widgets are the best and easiest way to add features and functionality to your blog without having to know any code or PHP to do it. Here’s a list of the widgets that are available for the test blog – Build a Blog with Wordpress:
Akismet – helps block spam from your [...]

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How to Change Your Theme with Wordpress.com

In this post I’m going to show you how to change your blog’s theme with Wordpress.com. Everyone wants to give their blog that personal touch and make it their own, and changing your theme from the default Kubrick theme to another one is the first step.
1. Go down to the Appearance tab on the left [...]

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Anatomy of a Blog – Jargon Buster

I am looking at this from an absolute beginners point of view, who wants to get up to speed as soon as possible and miss out the annoying search for information.
So lets get back to basics and break a blog down into it’s component parts. Below is a screenshot of our test blog using the [...]

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How to Create a Blog Using Wordpress.Com

In my last post I talked about how easy it can be to forget the frustration and impatience that you can feel as an absolute beginner blogger, trying to figure out how on earth you do with this blogging thing! So this series of posts is for all the absolute beginner bloggers out there that [...]

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Do You Need Help With Wordpress.Com?

Definition of a Blog:
A blog (a contraction of the term “web log“) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to [...]

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A Thrilling Wordpress Theme…

So we’re in 2010 a start of a new year and I’m raring to go! It’s funny how a new year makes me feel like that!
Anyway, I thought it was time for a change and a facelift for Build a Blog. It’s not just a cosmetic change that I’m looking for, I wanted some specific [...]

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What Build a Blog can do for you…

I’ve had an interesting year so far this year, as you will see from my unexpected photography project that I talk about on my digital photography blog.
My first blog
When I started this blog I had no experience with blogging whatsoever, yeah I’d read a few blogs but without really knowing what they were or how [...]

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Happy New Year!

I’d just like to wish everybody a happy New Year, and that your Christmas (if you celebrate it) was equally enjoyable.
At this time of year I can’t help but look back over 2008 a little, and that helps me to then look forward to 2009 and all that I hope it will bring…
What happened in [...]

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Yaro’s blog coaching program is OPEN

I expect you have seen some of the videos that Yaro Starak has released during the last week, they are full of information. The videos and interview with a million dollar blogger he published to help us all become better bloggers really impressed a lot of people – including me. He’s also released 2 [...]

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