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How to start a Blog

Introduction

With more and more people getting online everyday it’s no wonder the requests for Blogs or Web Logs have gone up to. Blogging is one of the fastest and easiest ways to get online and maintain your sites contents. It can be used for information websites which tend to add and update their contents frequently. So whether you want to Blog for recreation, to voice an opinion or to make money though your website, a Blog is definitely worth looking into. Blogs can also be very search engine friendly, which helps when you want to drive targeted traffic to your Blog.

Here we will show you the basic steps to getting your Free Blog online. If you haven’t found the link already please push this link to get started. http://www.host-blog.com

Sign up for an Blog account

Here you will see a form for you to fill out to register with our network, So fill out the form with your chosen username and a current email address, where we can send your confirmation email Also dont forget to chose if you want only to signup to our network or if you want to install your Blog and then click on Next.

* Signup page

Enter the Blog name and title

You should be at a new page now and ready to type in some basic information so we can install and get you started on your blog. So enter your preferred Blog name for example “DogsBlog” which will be located on the internet with the URL “dogsblog.host-blog.com” and a title for your Blog which represents the overall Blogs subject.

(Don’t worry the title can be changed from within the user controls later)

Also if you want your contents to be found on the internet by others using search engines then you must check the “I would like my blog to appear in search engines choice.

* Register for a Blog page

Email confirmations

Once you push the sign up button and if everything has gone to plan you will be directed to a new page with the following text message:

Congratulations! Your new blog, A Blog for Dogs, is almost ready.

But, before you can start using your blog, you must activate it.

Check your inbox at mail@robertward.name and click the link given. It should arrive within 30 minutes.

If you do not activate your blog within two days, you will have to sign up again.

Still waiting for your email?

If you haven’t received your email yet, there are a number of things you can do:

  • Wait a little longer. Sometimes delivery of email can be delayed by processes outside of our control.
  • Check the junk email or spam folder of your email client. Sometime emails wind up there by mistake.
  • Have you entered your email correctly? We think it’s mail@robertward.name but if you’ve entered it incorrectly, you won’t receive it.

Check your Email

Go to you email inbox and look for the host-blog confirmation email and click the link provided in this email. It should read something like this:

To activate your blog, please click the following link:
http://dogsblog.host-blog.com/wp-activate.php?key=05d0d7650
After you activate, you will receive *another email* with your login.
After you activate, you can visit your blog here:
http://dogsblog.host-blog.com/

After clicking on the link above you will have finished the process and be redirected to a new page confirming your Blog installation.

Your account is now active!

Username: tony

Password: 45048857

Your account is now activated. View your site or Login

Now you are ready to start blogging, also another email will be sent to you with the details above so keep thiese details in a safe plave as you will need these to sign in and administrate your Blog.

Happy Blogging

The Host-Blog Team

Change my wordpress theme template

How to change a wordpress theme.

Introduction

A wordpress Blog sites face is taken from its theme or template. By changing your wordpress Blogs theme or template you change the overlook and feel of the Blog. All other links and content remain the same across different wordpress themes. That means you can change your wordpress theme without worrying about losing your contents or categories, although I would strongly suggest backing up your Blog if you haven’t already done so.

Logging onto your Blog via FTP

First you will have to log on to your web directory where you Blog is located. You can do this with your favorite FTP software.

Uploading the Wordpress theme

Go to the “wp-content” directory and after to the “themes” directory.

Transfer the new themes directory you want to install onto your wordpress Blog into this directory.

Activating your wordpress Blog theme

Go to your wordpress Blog admin account at

www.YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME.com/wp-admin/

Where YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME is equal to the domain name the Blog has been installed onto.

Sign in with the username and password you have been giving by your web hosts administrator.

You should be at the “DashBoard”

Click on “Design”

You should see

Current Theme : This is the theme you are showing right now.

Available Themes : Here are the themes that have been loaded up to the Wordpress themes directory. If you do not see your theme then you may have not done the previous step correctly (Uploading the Wordpress theme).

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