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Blogging With Wordpress
By admin | October 18, 2008
I have posted recently about finding a niche, whether blogging is for you and if you think it might be, how to start looking for successful blogs, the sort that people revisit and want to know more about.
If you have decided that you might like to have a go at blogging whether as a pastime or as a potential business,there are quite a few programmes out there that you can use free of charge (which makes a change!)
Wordpress is one of the many free available software programmes, that allow you to set up a blog relatively quickly.
I think that Wordpress for me has been one of the easiest things to use. I am not itn least technically minded and I do struggle with that side of things (as previous posts have testified!) but for my money- or lack of it , wordpress is pretty easy to at least get going in a fairly basic way.
The only things you need in the short term are an email address and a user name, you get a password and an activation code and can start up practically immediately.
So what are the othere advantages of Wordpress? There are loads of templates which can easily be changed,you can put your posts into catagories, do spell check,post text, audio and video files and follow pretty neat statistical data. There is a facility to keep your blog private which is important to some people as outlined in previous posts and autosave and schedule your posts, which you may find useful if you are on a roll and post a number of entries that you want to come up over a few days.
I have found that the support offered to users is pretty good, important for those of us who are technically challenged and there are a number of active forums in which you can get help pretty much every hour of the day.
If you want a quick, free programme to get a blog up, I dont think you will go far wrong with Wordpress at least on a basic level.Like everything else, there can be a lot to learn to get some of the more advanced features but you can be up and running pretty quick!
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