Starting a Blog: Setting up your blog
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Cajen | Filed under blogging, tutorial series
Start.
If you haven’t, please read part 1 of this tutorial series. Alright, now with our website up and running, we can start installing our blog. First, you need a blogging software. There are a lot of options to choose from, but for this tutorial series, we are gonna use WordPress. It is a free blogging software used to publish your written works – it is written in PHP and uses mySQL as database. Our webhost both supports PHP and mySQL. Now go download WordPress, and extract the contents anywhere you prefer. Remember this directory as we will be doing a little tweaking later.
Now before we upload and install WordPress, we need to setup our mySQL databases – i.e. create a new database for our blog and a user to access that database. So login to your www.000webhost.com accounts, then go to your cPanel. Read the rest of this entry »
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Starting a Blog : The Prerequisites
Posted by Cajen | Filed under blogging, tutorial series
Start.
It is surprisingly easy to start a blog. Maintaining one is a whole different story.
To start a blog you can go two routes: sign up for one through one of the blogging sites for free (Wordpress or Blogger are two of the more famous ones) or you can host one. I suggest that you host one, since you have better control over the blog plus you also have the flexibility of adding other features in the future (forums, e-commerce, etc.) since basically you have your very own website. The route I took is hosting.
For hosting, you need to understand two(2) terms: domain name and hosting. The domain name will be your hostname (yourblogname.com), or more loosely, your website’s address (www.yourblogname.com). Hosting is where your domain name points at - which is a physical server that has your website’s content. Think of the domain name as an address that points to a physical house. The physical house, or the host, has all the pertinent server specs, like speed, space allocated, bandwidth, etc. Now normally, these cost money. However, there are free webhosting sites that offers free sub domains. Yehey!
I used www.000webhost.com free webhosting services. Signing up is easy and you get these for free: 250MB disk space, and 100GB bandwidth. Disk space is the amount of disk space that you are allowed to upload and bandwidth is the amount of traffic allowed per month. It also has PHP and mySQL Support, which we are gonna be needing. Also, if you are looking to host your files locally, I suggest that you use XAMPP - you can read this post for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hi there and welcome! I am an accomplished gamer, programmer and web designer enthusiast, an artist interrupted, a budding entrepreneur, and now a blogger. Through this blog, I will be sharing you my thoughts and I hope that you do the same. This blog will contain blogging tips & tricks, fireworks tutorials, photoshop tutorials, web design, graphics, and then some. As I’ve mentioned in my first post, I claim no level of proficiency in any of the tutorials that I will be posting, however, I pride myself in being a good instructor and I will try to make them as easy as possible for everyone.