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Chapter 3 – Setting Up Your Blog
Chapter three walks us through choosing a blogging platform. There are many of them out there and a lot of folks start out with Blogger or WordPress.com, the free WordPress blogging platform.
Darren and Chris walk you through some of the questions to answer when you are deciding what platform to blog on, which include:
- What are your goals for your blog?
- What is your budget?
- How technical are you?
- What blogging platforms are others using?
With anyone who uses a computer, there are a wide range of computer skills out there. Technical forums seem to always be one of the most popular sections of a forum when it comes to almost any subject in the computer world and this includes blogging.
There’s a helpful graph that shows what blogging platform people are using. The information was gathered by one of Darren’s many surveys he does on his blog.
Hosted versus Self-Hosted
This section of the book has quite a bit of discussion among the eight sub-sections on the topic. From the advantages to the disadvantages as well as the benefits and who should consider using a hosted or self-hosted blog, there’s quite a bit of discussion and bullet-points that get you thinking about the things you consider in the beginning of your blog as well as later when you have some time under your belt to help narrow your presentation of your blog.
Your Blog’s Domain Name
One of the most important parts of your blog is to pick a domain name. Again, there are quite a few bullet points to consider and discuss amongst yourself when you decide to name your blog and get it registered.
There are many domain name services to see if your domain name is available. It’s always important to take some time and think about what your domain name will be.
Problogger then walks you through setting up a free WordPress.com blog as well as a self-hosted WordPress blog. There’s some good tips on how to tweak your blog’s look as well as the many design considerations you’ll be presented with when you setup your blog. A popular WordPress theme is used to show how you can tweak it to look the way you want it to look.
Five exercises scattered throughout chapter three help you get closer to the blog that fits you and your blogging intentions.
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Hi Bill,
Thank you for your comment. I’ve got a 3 year old myself and balancing family and music ain’t easy!
Anyway, I just bought this book and will hopefully start this week. It’s great to find sites like this that help un-tech-y people like me 🙂 I look forward to reading more reviews and posts here.
Best,
Nik
Oh, and you played with Chris Potter! That must have been a ball!!
Nik Paytons last blog post..How well do you tell your story?
Yes, a lot of the folks I played with were one nighters – Chris came through town as well as Clifford Jordan. That was kind of cool because Clifford was in one of my jazz history books. I was also fortunate enough to rehearse with Billy Eckstine but he got sick right before a 3-day gig and it was canceled. Music was a big part of my life in my twenties.