Wordpress
If you installed your blog in a separate sub-folder of your domain (as I did), then your blog’s URL will be something like http://yourdomain.org/yourblogname. If you want the main http://yourdomain.org to point to your blog, then you have to go through these steps:
WordPress posts and pages may include photos, videos, audio clips or a link to any other file we wish to store in our blog. The first thing to decide is where the uploaded files will be stored. The Settings > Miscellaneous administration sub-panel allows us to define in which sub-folder of the blog’s installation folder [...]
Today I copied the page listing my activities from the current site to this blog. It was quite easy. I first opened the activities page in my browser, selected all text and pressed Ctrl-C to copy it to the clipboard. Then I logged into my blog, went into the Write > Page administration sub-panel, typed [...]
To do anything on your blog, from writing posts to removing spam comments, from changing the look to reorganizing the sidebar, you have to log in, by clicking on the ‘Log in’ link under the ‘Meta’ heading on the right sidebar. Type in the username and password chosen during the installation process, and you’ll get [...]
The team behind WordPress boasts to have a simple five minute installation process, by which I guess they mean it takes 5 minutes alone to read and understand the instructions, never mind executing all the downloading and configuration steps… Fortunately, there’s a way for the time from nada to a WordPress blog to be under [...]
According to my own, admittedly unscientific and cursory, search on the internet, the main blogging systems seem to be Blogger, Typepad and WordPress.com. All these are hosted systems, i.e. some company does the management for you: they pay for the servers and data storage, install, run and upgrade the blogging software, and back up your [...]
For many years I had a static black-and-white website, like most academics. I edited the simple bare bones HTML files on my machine with Microsoft Frontpage and then uploaded them to a specific directory of some departmental server. This was a perfectly acceptable state of affairs, but it had some drawbacks:
After tinkering for a week with a test WordPress blog, I feel confident enough to start the real thing: a blog that will eventually become my site, taking over from the current one and expanding it. I will record everything I do in that process, not only to keep notes of software and sites I [...]