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Where Is Your Blog?

Some of you have not started with a Blog yet. What is a Blog? Probably in short, a Blog is a Web Journal or weB LOG. Many out there, so lets get started with a Couple That Are FREE! AGAIN Read Through before you start.

Today we will look at WordPress, so lets go to: www.wordpress.com/
WordPress Brings up a page with this: “Express yourself. Start a blog.” So we click on: “Sign Up Now!”

Now fill out this one-step form, starting with user name: You may as well fill out the whole form and then may have to change some things because they have already been taken &/or used.

e.g. I had to change the E-Mail address 3 times to find one that was not already being used for a WordPress Blog. You can have as many Blogs as you need with the same E-Dress though for this exercise I wanted o start from scratch, as to document this lesson for you who are brand new.

You may have to try a couple times to get a User Name that is not already gone too.

Choose a password and WordPress will help and suggest, so you are using a secure password. Then Confirm it.

I keep a NotePad .txt File for my Sites, Forums, etc to keep track of Users names & PassWords. Or you can Use ‘MS Word’ and keep them in a .doc file

Enter an active e-mail address, click the ‘Legal flotsam’ that you have read ‘The Fine Print’ make sure default, ”Gimme a blog’ button is active and click on next! Leave the Defaults unless you would like to change or ‘Dress Up’ the ‘Blog Title’. Make sure the Privacy is clicked, so the Search Engines can find you. Click on ‘Sign Up’. You now have a page that tells you, “Check Your Email to Complete Registration”

Now go to your e-mail account and click on the link to activate your Blog! Walla! Now back to your Blog Page and you may have to log back in. … Now where did you put that ‘User Name and Password’?

Click on ‘Dashboard’ at top of page and now you are ready to “Blog Away”! OK! Now go back and do it for real! When you get it going, go ahead and play with it and in another lesson we will change a few things so it will be personal for you.

Glad you stuck around! Be Blessed till next time, DP