It is very easy to look at your blog and see that everything seems normal, but underneath the surface problems might be lurking. When was the last time you checked that everything actually works as it should?
To give an example, I have a number of older blogs that use Blogger.com. Yesyerday I was setting up [...]
Continue reading about The Importance of Checking Your Links
In the earlier parts of this series we learned what a blog is, then looked at starting your first blog. This time we will actually set up that first blog using Blogger.com.
Blogger, a part of Google, is a free hosted blogging service which lets you post and manage your weblog from within your web browser. It [...]
The other day I decided to upgrade two of my Wordpress blogs from version 2.04 and 2.05 to version 2.1, mainly because the provider of my webhosting servers was insisting. I went to the script library in cPanel and found the new version listed, along with the upgrade button. Nothing happened when I pressed it.
So, it [...]
When writing a post, if you use a term that might not be clear to some readers, make it a link to the appropriate Wikipedia entry.
For example, in a post intended for beginners, Your first blog, I used the term WYSIWYG to describe a feature of some editors. This term can be linked, as I have done, [...]
Continue reading about Quick Tip - Link titles make posts easier to understand
There are a few questions you need to ask yourself when choosing a platform for your first blog:
* Do I want a free blog, or do I want to pay for it
* Do I want it hosted on a blog platform, or do I want to host it on my own website with my own [...]
