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June 2011

Customizing WordPress – Visitor Tracking and Plugins

by amelia brockman on June 29, 2011

I’ve completed most of the job of customizing this blog and it’s looking and feeling good. I worked late last night creating categories and a few static pages. Both of these items can be changed and adjusted in the future. In fact, almost everything I’m doing right now to customize the blog can be undone [...]

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Customizing WordPress – Tutorials, Themes

by amelia brockman on June 28, 2011

Installing WordPress, the software used to create this blog, was a snap, but customizing and setting it up to do exactly what I have in mind for it to do is much more difficult. I’ve been working at customizing this blog for two days now and I’ve still got quite a long list of things [...]

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Install WordPress software.

by amelia brockman on June 26, 2011

So easy. I logged into DreamHost, chose “One Click Installs” from the “Toolbox” on their web panel. (Top left hand corner.) Chose WordPress from the options. It walked me through the process. Done! It literally could not be simpler.  

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Set up hosting of blog site.

by amelia brockman on June 26, 2011

Once a domain name has been purchased, the next step is to setup  hosting of the domain. Hosting basically just means having a place to store the files which are being created. There are hundreds of host sites all over the Internet from which to choose who are willing to do this for you for [...]

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Sleep. Precious sleep.

by amelia brockman on June 25, 2011

I’ve got to get some good sleep tonight. Lack of sleep normally doesn’t bother me. I’m good to go if I can get 4 to 5 hours, but I’ve been making a big mistake lately and it’s killing me. I’ve got carpal tunnel in both wrists and am supposed to wear wrist guards to sleep. [...]

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Register a Domain Name

by amelia brockman on June 24, 2011

Step one, choosing a name. This step was so exciting for me that I went off and grabbed three domain names — this one plus two more!  Then I caught control of myself or who knows how much further I could have gone. I think it could easily become overwhelming. (Besides, GoDaddy.com occasionally runs a [...]

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Step-by-step setup of a blog.

by amelia brockman on June 24, 2011

Whew! I can’t tell you how many late, late nights I’ve had this week reading everything I can get my hands on online regarding blogging, setting up blogging software, optimizing a blog, etc. I’m the type person . . . boy, do I ever like checklists. I make them for everything. So here is the [...]

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Earn Money Blogging

by amelia brockman on June 20, 2011

It certainly takes an effort to get through all the information about this topic online and to separate out truth from sales pitches. I’ve spent many hours at it, but I’ve come to the conclusion that I do believe there is money to be made blogging, and I do believe there are already plenty of [...]

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Maybe it’s meant to be.

by amelia brockman on June 20, 2011

I think maybe it’s meant to be . . . writing for a living, that is. The kids and I were at garage sales this morning and I stumbled upon a treasure trove of books related to writing and working online. Wooohoooo! I was doing the happy dance all the way back to the van. [...]

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Google is a Rat’s Nest

by amelia brockman on June 19, 2011

Try Googling to find information about earning money writing . . . wow! What a challenge! There’s just too much information out there . . . and much of it . . . unfortunately, very suspect. It’s a Google obstacle course to be sure – trying to weed out the good information from the bad [...]

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