How to use AboutUs.org

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Since our post on your about us page, we have had some questions about how to submit your site to aboutus.org. First, go to http://aboutus.org and put your website's URL (your domain name) into the search field. Once your site is entered, you will be taken to your site's page. The URL ...

Register your domain with 1and1

Friday, July 16th, 2010

After you have found your ideal domain name, go to 1and1 to register it.  All you have to do is find their "Domains" section, enter in the name you have already found and follow their instructions.  Creating an account is very easy with 1and1. If you already have a 1and1 account, ...

Register a Free Domain with Dreamhost

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

If you are only going to register 1 domain and you choose to get hosting with DreamHost, you can save the money and steps below by cashing in on your one free domain from them.  The benefit here is that you can manage your hosting and domain registration in the ...

Changing the Domain of your WordPress Site

Monday, June 14th, 2010

If you are not changing the domain of your WordPress site, please check out our article called "Moving Your WordPress Site to a New Server". We will cover both scenarios of what to do if you need to change your WordPress domain name, the first being the "right" way to do ...

What is a website, and how do I get one?

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

This is a question that I feel a lot of people thing they know, or are too afraid to ask so they just assume certain things.  Hopefully, after this article things will be much clearer. In order to have a website, you have to have these 3 things: 1. Domain A domain or ...

Permalinks

Monday, June 30th, 2008

From Wordpress: Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. ...

Logging Into WordPress

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

In order to log into WordPress, you can always go to http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/.  This of course is where "yourdomain" is the domain name you run your site from. If your blog is installed to another directory than the root directory for your website, say /blog/, you would go to http://www.yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin/. Enter your username ...

Installing WordPress to Your Server

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Preface This article assumes that you already have a domain name, DNS settings, and host set up to house your website. If you do not have these things, try: Bust A Name - for finding your ideal domain name (this is what you would type in to get to your site) 1and1 for registering ...