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Y’all ready for a bit of WordPress again?!
08-7-2008 · 25 Comments
When my good friend Jessica decided to take a break from web design for a while, some of our previous plans were scratched off the slate, including a site we were working on together.
It has been nearly a year now (because obviously Jess wasn’t the only one that needed the break) and I’ve finally pulled out the old web files, cleaned them up, fixed broken links and out-dated screenshots, and worked them into my blog for you guys to use if needed and share with your friends.
The step-by-step tutorials below are for those of you (and future visitors) who are using free, web-hosted blogs like Blogger, Wordpress.com, LiveJournal, TypePad, etc…, but have been hankering to ditch the blogging training wheels and start riding with the bigger kids on the block. It isn’t for the faint of heart, but then again, there’s something special about investing in your ‘ride’, if you know what I mean.
If ya need’em, use ‘em.
If ya don’t, don’t.
Either way, they’re here.
Taking your Self-Hosted Blog to a New Level
Ditch Your Blogging Training Wheels.
A lab segment from Blogher 2007: Transitioning to a self-hosted blog (Intermediate)
- How to purchase your own domain name
- How to purchase web hosting
- Defining DNS, what is it and why do you need to know?
- Setting up WordPress using cPanel and Fantastico.
- Setting up Domain Re-Directs to your new weblog.
Next up? I re-code WordPress Wednesdays and get that going again. Are you ready for it?
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Not only am I ready but I CANNOT WAIT! Bring it on, OMSH! I’ve been waiting oh-so-eagerly for WordPress Wednesdays (or whatever it will be called) to return!
Yee Haw!
(sorry for the excessive use of exclamations marks…what can I say, I’m excited!)
Yay!
About time…er I mean “YES, MAM!”
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’ll certainly look into this for myself, but I’ll also be trying my hand at creating a website for my karate/kickboxing school! That man is sooooooooooo behind the times ;^(
I am! I am!
Yay! I actually went looking for this a few weeks ago and was sad when I Blame Her was gone. Thanks for bringing it back here. =)
Looking forward to it!
Heather, thanks for the new link at Kirsty for my “Tree.”
You have so many great tips, clever, clever girl!
YIPPEE! HOORAY! FINALLY! Thank you thnak you thank you!
YAY!
This is something that I have wanted to do for over a year but am just so comfortable where I am. Blogger has introduced so many new things that make it so easy and every time I give my neglected Wordpress site a shot I come away frustrated and confused.
Maybe I good tutorial is what I need.
Thanks OMSH!
Thanks !
YAY!!! Your site TOTALLY helped me out when it was up before. It was (and I’m assuming it is again) AMAZING!!
I’m looking forward to Wordpress Wednesdays!!!!! WOOOOOOOO!!
yes!! all of your hard work is so appreciated. you are the best.
I so am :)
YAY!!! I can’t wait for Wordpress Wednesdays. YIPEEE!!
I had been meaning to ask you more about your feelings about GoDaddy, given their history of, shall we say, risque advertising.
dude. my wordpress blog has been hacked twice in the last 3 weeks.
i am ready to learn anything you have to teach, and i will be checking back CONSTANTLY. if any of more of my posts get eaten, i’m going to start crying and NEVER EVER STOP. especially because i blog drunk most of the time, so you know i can’t just ‘remember’ what the post originally said.
i’m kidding about that last part. kind-of.
I know my wife is REALLY looking forward to going through these with you!
I CAN’T WAIT TO GIVE IT A TRY!!! I have been trying to center my blogger and have played with the code so much that I decided I better just leave it alone before I really screw it up. The kids start school next week and I will have a few weeks to myself before my classes start. Thanks Heather!! You are awesome!! :)
Yeah! Bring it on!
I still haven’t moved my rarely updated blog. I’m waiting with bated breath!
Oh, and I’m back to reading. Nice to see ya! :-)
Yeehaw! I am so excited. I reference the old posts frequently as I’ve just recently “ditched my blogging training wheels”!
Well, OMSH! I need some help getting my training wheels off, so this sounds like just the ticket.
Susan
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