Build a Blog

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

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 a widget is and how to add them to your blog to add functionality. Now it’s [...]

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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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Do you Tweet?

I have resisted for a while but I have finally given in and joined Twitter! Twitter if you haven’t heard of it before, which would be surprising because everyone seems to have heard of it, is a social media and micro-blogging site that allows users to send updates or Tweets up to 140 characters long. Twitter [...]

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Do You Use Social Networking?

And if so which one? Social Networking is part of the new web 2.0 technologies and comes under the umbrella of Social Media which also includes blogs, forums, message boards, podcasts, video and pictures. How does Social Networking work? They use the collective view of the community to form an opinion, understanding or just share the information [...]

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