If you want the power of WordPess on your own host and not WordPress.com you most first purchase hosting. I recommend HostGator. Their hosting is good as well as cheap. Once you have your hosting you can now install WordPress…
Nearly all webhost will have C-Panel or some other method of doing this.
Last month we used Bitnami to install WordPress locally on our computer. Installing Bitnami is reasonable simple but I found a much easier way. You can use “Instant WordPress” which take no effort at all. Double click on the .exe file. I think ask only one question, “where to install”. You choose anywhere on your computer or even a USB stick. Read more…
This month we will all build a fantastic WordPress.org (not WordPress.com) site from scratch step by step and we will finish the entire site well before the two hours.
To do this without actually having web-server we are going to install a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server plus WordPress software on our computers. Read more…
Next month on Dec. 12th we’ll do a step by step tutorial on how to create a super stylized WordPress site. We will start at the very beginning and work our way to a great site. It will not be videos. It will be me showing you and then you doing it. The purpose of this tutorial is not for you to learn all the answers to the question “How do I build a WordPress site?”. It is simply for you to get your hands dirty building one. Read more…
This is how to add WordPress to a Godaddy site… Read more…
If you don’t want a website that looks like a blog you have to options you can create a page and make that the homepage or you can use a magazine theme. A magazine theme is a blog but the post on the front page are not layed out in the traditional linier fashion. All the post are layed out as thought it was a magazine. This looks best when you have a lot of photos. There are limited magazine themes on WordPress.com although I expect they will get more later. Read more…
To run a WordPress.org website you need, a web-server running Linux and the Apache Web server. Most hosting services offer Linux running Apache as a choice. It must have the PHP scripting language installed also the MySQL database. This configuration is called LAMP. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Read more…
