Welcome to Bivori ‘How to Blog’ series of posts. I believe this series will be useful to learn how to create your own blog. Do you really want to create your own blog? The posts of this series will be published every wednesday. I will discuss about blogging from very basic concept and gradually proceed [...]
Today I’ll point out some of the popular blogging platforms at your disposal. What a great day today, BTW, it’s 12-12-12! There are numerous blogging platforms – some are free and some has different monthly plans. Some are hosted and managed by the provider and some you’ll host yourself. One or the other platform can [...]
The last post was about some free options to create your own blog, and today, let’s see some of the popular self-hosted blogging platforms. If you are still wondering what the self-hosted blogging platform is, let me simplify it. To create websites, you’ll write a lot of HTML pages, create relevant links and store them [...]
After learning the popular blogging platforms, today, lets prepare computer to install wordpress so that you can test different themes, plugins and functionalities before you upload it to live server.
I describe the essential web software necessary to host WordPress locally on your computer and then show you how to download and install the web server software.
In my previous post, you learned how to prepare your computer to install WordPress. I told you about Apache the web server, PHP the server side web programming language and MySql the database server to hold and offer data for your websites. And finally, recommended XAMPP for easy installation and configuration of those server components [...]
Till post #5 of ‘How to Blog’ series: You learned the basic concepts of blogging Got to know about popular free-hosted blogging platforms and created your first blog on one of them. Been familiar with web software required to run any websites and prepare your computer to install WordPress You learned how to install and [...]
Pratikshya asked me “How do I get a website name?” in an email. Website name? The question could mean many things. She might be looking for a brandable word to name her website, or, she was looking for exact domain name for her website. After a couple of emails to and fro, I could get [...]
Here I discuss about some of the best domain name registrars in this post. Through my previous post in this ‘How to blog’ series of posts, you’ve already learned: What is blog and blogging in the eyes of today’s popular bloggers Popular FREE blogging platforms Most Used Self-Hosted blogging platforms How to prepare your computer [...]
How to blog series is great going and I always make my utmost effort for you to get the best information about creating new blog. Till post #8, you learned the different conceptual and practical aspects of technology required to run your blog. In my previous post, I pointed out some of the best domain registrars so that [...]
I am discussing some essential web hosting features in this part of ‘how to blog’ series, so that you can better decide the best web host for your WordPress blog. Though there are many free hosting services easily available everywhere but you need to have your own web host. Why? Free hosting are good for [...]
In this post of ‘how to blog‘ series, I’m going to refer some of the best WordPress hosting for your blog. In our previous sessions, you learned the different types of hosting and the important things you should care while buying hosting packages. A good host that is always up and fast enough plays vital [...]
This post is a demonstration of how to buy domain names from GoDaddy and set the name servers so that it will point to the HostGator hosting. This way you’ll be using the best of the bests services for your blog! For this demonstration, I’ve purchased a new domain name ‘SureshKhanal.com’ and thus, you can [...]
This post demonstrates how you can install WordPress in your HostGator account by using cPanel applications such as Fantastico Deluxe or QuickInstall. In ‘How to Blog‘ series, you’ve already learned to set up XAAMP web server on your local computer and install WordPress to host your WordPress blog locally. Please click on the relevant links if you missed that [...]
This is a simple post to remind you what settings you must configure immediately when you installed WordPress for your new blog. We bought the new domain name ‘SureshKhanal.com‘ and installed WordPress. I’ve demonstrated it in post #12 and #13, now lets start configuring it so that it works great, looks awesome and is optimized [...]
Last session was about the immediate settings you should fix for your newly installed WordPress blog. In this session we’ll learn how to install WordPress themes. For this demonstration, I’ll be installing Thesis 2 theme on my demo blog SureshKhanal.com. This is Post #15 of How to Blog Series. This series is target to newbies [...]
In our previous session we discussed about two of the industry best themes for any WordPress blogs and also learned how to install Thesis theme. I had planned to demonstrate installing thesis skins and customizing it in this post. But now, before we proceed ahead for that topic, I felt it necessary to refer at least one [...]