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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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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Blogging Platforms – Which One To Choose?

I could give a normal review of blogging platforms, looking at each of the popular ones in turn with the pros and cons of each, but I’m not going to (whoa that was a short post)! So what is the difference between, hosted and non hosted? Instead I’m going to tell you about my experiences of [...]

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