I’m so excited! I’ve gotten my first blog installed, working and (almost) figured out.
I feel just like the first guy who invented the wheel! In fact, there’s a 50-50 chance that first “guy” was a woman — maybe even a grandma like me. I can picture her jumping up and down, crying “Ooga-booga!” I know just how she feels! And her next thought was probably “I’ve got to tell the rest of the tribe about this! This has possibilities …”
Well, when she invented the wheel, she most likely didn’t really “invent” it. She found a nice log and figured out how to use it. What I’ve figured out how to use is the blogging program called WordPress. (And available for free!)
I’ll be giving the blow-by-blow description of what I learn as we go along.
At this point, I imagine there are some people saying, “Oooo! Cool!” and others saying, “You’ve figured out how to install WordPress … have you also figured out how to tie your own shoes?” (more…)
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After getting this all set up in QuickBlog, I’ve changed my mind. I think I’d be better off with WordPress. It’s more complicated, but also more options. Apparently you set it up from the same screen where we set up Joomla earlier. (On the GoDaddy hosting account Control Panel, it’s under “Value Applications”.)
The thing I don’t see how to do right off the bat is how to get my domain switched from the QuickBlog.
One other thing to consider — I guess you could make a blog on Joomla, since I’ve decided to learn that program. Maybe there would be advantages to just learning one software.
(Evening)
I’ve spent most of the evening and afternoon reading about WordPress. The next thing will be to figure out how to change the blog over from the other one. I think maybe that will be done by just canceling that blog, and then … (?)
I’m installing WordPress (WordPress 2.0.4) to my practice domain. Here’s what it wants:
OK. Setup is pending. It takes it a few minutes to install, then it’s ready to go.
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The time has now come for me to start taking some kind of action on my
internet projects. It’s quite confusing and actually scary. I’m not
sure what I want to do … nor how to do it even if I did know what I
want to do.
My idea is that, for now, I’m learning the mechanics of all this. So
financial results are not the main consideration.
They say you should decide on your approach and then concentrate on it.
But at this point, I just don’t feel like I have enough information to
know what I’m going to do — ebay? create a digital product? affiliate
marketing? public domain publishing? something I haven’t even
thought of yet?
Well, it boggles the mind to get too hung up on all that. So for the
moment, my objective is to create a blog and get Adsense on it. Then my
next objective is to create a webpage using Joomla and figure out how
that works.
I’m not even sure where to start … The blog I have in mind will be a
continuing record of a rather clueless non-techie’s journey to a
position of making a living online. I was searching for available
domains the other day and the name I came up with was
“onlinegrandma.com”. Haven’t registered it yet. (more…)
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