My Junkyard

For those who have been following this blog now that there have been some difficulties. Difficulties in several areas. Let me sum them up and tell you how I (think) I’ve solved them.

1. Installing wordpress at my own hosting provider
2. Getting a theme that I like
3. Struggle to get pictures on the blog
4. Get noticed by google and yahoo – promote my blog
5. Add ads to my blog

1 Installing wordpress at my own hosting provider

I’ve written about this earlier, the main issue was that i’ve never had a blog before. First thing to do was selecting a hosting provider. I ended up at one.com. Why? Basicly because it was the cheapest one I could find. I had no idea how long I would be doing this blogging and I did not want to start with a huge budget. Today I have mixed feelings about my choice for one.com but hopefully it will suit me fine in the future. 

So, how to install? Basicly it was very simple, just do the following:

• Unzip the package you’ve downloaded from www.wordpress.org
• FTP all the files to your site (your hosting provider tells you how)
• Run the installation script via a browser. You can use the 5-minute installation guide provided by wordpress.org
• Be sure to know what your databasename and accounts are (provided by your hosting party)
• Than a problem…. ??? It stopped? Now what? I noticed that it stopped running the script. In the address bar I saw that it ended at something like ****-step3 , so I decided to change the 3 in a 4 and it continues to run. So far ok.
• It’s done and it’s working (as far as I can tell)
• Now I needed to modify the standard wordpress installation to my liking…

2 Getting a wordpress theme I like

This is the simple part (is it?). Via the wp-admin tool (wordpress admin tool) you can easily go to the wordpress theme library. Here you can select a theme, there are hundreds maybe even thousands of themes… Select and testdrive the themes you like. The testdrive gives you an impression of what you’ll get if you install that specific theme on your blog.  I couldn’t choose between some of them so I downloaded 4 themes and tried them all. There are several different options per theme. It depends on what the designer put in them.  Today I use the Mukka-mu theme after testdriving several other thems. Thanks for the theme !

I’ll continue this topic later, If you need more information on a subject just let me know via a comment.

UPDATE , continue here

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