If your background is not a designer and a developer, or if you are not keen in design custom site, then stop waste your time of doing it, leave it to the experts and start to focus on your blog optimization.
Dont’ get me wrong, I didn’t mean you are not good, I know some of you go through countless photoshop, html/css tutorials, got Dreamweaver or FrontPage etc, which you can use to create a custom website at no time, but slapping an html extension on the end of a file doesn’t make it worthy of the internet or your users.
Yes, I heard you say, you do not have, or you have limited budget, and you can’t afford to hire an expert to do it for you, so you have to do it by yourself. True, you are right, we all know a custom website or a blog is expensive, that’s what designers and developers are paid for. They got paid by selling their skills, in some cases, they can charge more and work less.
So, for you, a new blogger or a newbie that want to join the make money on the net ocean, how and what should you do to get your blog roll out. The process actually is pretty standardized.
Assume you already Draw OUT your PLAN, in the other words, you already know the niche you want to be in and you know what you will write about and what you will do with your blog (you may get some ideas from my previous post) .
1. Registering a Domain and Get Hosting
As with all websites, they must register a domain name and get hosted somewhere in cyberspace.
There are many choices out there but I would fully recommend a hosting company I familiar with – GVO, they hosting and marketing systems are developed and implemented from servers in their new Data center, and they have different hosting package offers, sign up process is simple.
If you have very strict and tight budget, Realiblewebs Install WordPress Blog is another alternative choice for you.
Additionally, these two videos toward how to set up your web hosting account Part 1 and Part 2 can also help you gain better understanding when comes to the hosting matters.
2. Choose and Install CMS
Once you got your hosting sort out, you should have your own hosting login info, use that info and login to your account. You’ll see the cpanel interface with Fantastico, Fantastico allows you to install a large number of different programs with the click of your mouse. There are over 50 scripts loaded into Fantastico for quick installation. Such program types include blogs, discussion boards, ecommerce, customer relationship, content management (Joomla, Mambo, Drupal and WordPress etc).
After I have been working with Joomla, Mambo and WordPress, I find that my favorite cms is WordPress, one of the most simple installations of any cms available.
A CMS is a content management system or a framework that allows you to easily add, remove or edit content using a “backend” that will update the “frontend” or live version of your site. It is a tool that enables a variety of (centralized) technical and (de-centralized) non technical staff to create, edit, manage and finally publish (in a number of formats) a variety of content (such as text, graphics, video, documents etc), whilst being constrained by a centralized set of rules, process and work flows that ensure coherent, validated electronic content.
Speaking of that, following these three videos will guide and walk you through the setting up process:
* Setting Up a WordPress Blog Part 1
* Setting Up a WordPress Blog Part 2
* Setting Up a WordPress Blog Part 3
After your blog set up done, all you have left to do is input your content by adding new pages, uploading photos and other media and publish your site. In regarding to the content, you do need to produce fresh content consistently because it is One of Your Best Tools for you to generate leads and interest to your products or services. The easiest way to do is to use PLR Package solutions. You can choose the content based on the niche your blog in.
Beside that, this article of Frequently Used WordPress Plugin will help you with the finer details of using and relying on wordpress for your site.
As far as you read till here, if you still wondering why you need your own website or blog, you might can find answer in this article.
In regarding to the theme, it is okay to go with the free one at the beginning, but if you really want to do it right and get your blog optimized from the start, you should go for Professional Designed the Themes, because as WordPress software consistently improve and upgraded, lots of free themes are not compatible with it, in the other words, the theme can get broken and it will cost you more time in fixing it.
Hope you find this article helpful in the journey to your blogging success.
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