Guides

How to Use Social Media to Promote Your Website or Blog

You’ve probably heard that social media tools can be great for promoting your website or blog. Maybe you’ve even jumped in and tried a few. Now it’s time to take social media more seriously — to build a social media marketing plan that incorporates some of the right tools for promoting your unique website or blog to your unique audience. In order to come up with the right social media

How to Manually Install WordPress

We talked about why you might start a blog. Now let’s talk about the “how.” Let’s say you want to use the popular WordPress blog platform (self-hosted). Once you have a domain name and Web hosting account set up, you need to install WordPress before you can customize it for your new site. Some hosts give you an easy way to do this, through Fantastico or other automated installation options.