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How to Create a Blog - Part 5

September 26th, 2008 • stephenlawes • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

We have been talking about how to create a blog here on My Newbie Blog. In our last article we began to discuss the importance of content. In this article we want to continue to discussion in regard to adding quality content to your site. While you are developing your own content, you can often build readership by presenting useful content from other sources on the Internet. One of the ways to do this is to take advantage of RSS feeds that are available from some popular sites.

We took three hours this afternoon and took a site from bare bones to looking presentable by adding a new theme, adding some RSS feeds, adding some video feeds, and utilizing some plugins and widgets. We also designed a logo and added some 125 ads. The site is called Current Events Online and it now looks like this:

If anyone visits the site now, they could spend a long time looking through all of the information available. What we will do now is begin to add some articles over time. This will allow us to develop the site while at the same time keeping people who come to the site before all of our own content is on the site. If you visit the Current Events Online site you might think that it has been around for a long time. The lack of articles is not readily apparent because of the impact of the RSS feeds. We have used a theme that will allow us to add our content as featured articles which can be developed over the next weeks and months. This can be a very helpful way to develop a site and establish an Internet presence.

Proud as a Peacock

May 18th, 2008 • stephenlawes • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

I know this a goofy title for an article but I have a couple of great pictures of an albino peacock and I thought they would be a nice addition to the new look for the site. Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the new layout. The new theme makes the articles a little easier to read. I have few more tweaks to make but for the most part the site is operational. I like the featured articles on the home page. It allows me to put articles I really want people to read in a very eye catching place. There is plenty of room for everything and I think it all flows together nicely. I really like the new theme for how to create a blog and I hope you will enjoy it as well. So I guess I am proud as a peacock.

I will be updating you soon on the progress of some of our SEO experiments. In the meantime keep writing articles and building links!

Time for a New Theme

May 17th, 2008 • stephenlawes • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

I have decided to change the theme I have been using on My Newbie Blog. As you learn how to create a blog I suggest working with the easiest theme you can find. You have a lot to get comfortable with. As your site develops, you may want to take it to another level. As this site starts to get more traffic, I want to have a more professional look. So in a few days you should see the site looking completely different. I wanted to take a moment to say goodbye to the current theme, Blogsmith. Blogsmith is like an old friend. I will miss it. I may try and find a place for Blogsmith on another site. In order to remember where the site started I am going to put a picture of Blogsmith here so I can always see where My Newbie Blog started. I am going to start installing the theme today. As I have told you from the beginning, starting a blog is fun!

More on Starting Free Blogs

March 29th, 2008 • stephenlawes • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

In my last post about how to create a blog I wrote about utilizing all of the MYSQL that come with most web hosting packages in an article called Adding Additional Blogs for Free. Today we will examine two additional ways to start free blogs. One of them is Blogger.com, the other is WordPress.com.

Blogger.com

Go to blogger.com.

Either sign in (if you have a gmail account already) or sign up. After you have done this you should be at the Blogger dashboard. Here you can edit any existing Blogger blogs you have or create new ones.

Go to Create a Blog

Enter in a Blog Title (I used Blogging Newbie Advice). Now you need to select a blog address. This process can take a few tries because a lot of addresses are already taken (I used bloggingnewbieadvice). Type in the word verification and press continue.

Choose a template and press Continue

Your blog has been created! Press Start Blogging. You can also get to your blog by typing in the URL address: http://bloggingnewbieadvice.blogspot.com

You can either jump right into a post or you can check your settings, layout, or view your blog. Play around with your new free blog. Write some posts and you are on your way.

WordPress.com

Go to WordPress.com

You can either sign in or sign up. At this screen you can edit blogs you have already started or register another blog.

Press register a blog or (another blog).

Enter in a domain name, a blog title and press Create Blog. I chose Newbie Blogger Advice for the title and newbiebloggeradvice.wordpress.com for the domain name.

Click on the link for your new blog or type it into your web browser.

There it is! Under Meta press Site Admin

At the WordPress dashboard click on Presentation and select a theme from those provided. I chose Blix. When you press on the theme you want you will see a preview.

If you like the theme press on Activate in the top right corner of the preview.

You are good to go. Add some posts (if you need some help with how the editor works read Using the WordPress Write Post and Write Page Editor), and have fun figuring out your new free blog.