Starting a Blog: Setting up your blog
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Cajen | Filed under blogging, tutorial series
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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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Tags: blogging, fireftp, free blogging software, ftp account, mySQL, php
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.