I get many questions about which blog platform to use. What i do is wait until I see trends in the questions submitted then I pick the one asked the most and answer it… This is one of those questions.
So, Blogger or WordPress?
Let’s clarify something first: We are talking about two free blogging platforms that do not require you having your own hosting account.
Why use a free blogging service?
Before spending money on hosting and leaning all about hosting your own blog you may want to test out your blog on one of the above free blogging platforms. It’s also a fast way to test out a topic and see if it hits a market nerve.
Contact form 7 is not just a contact form. It can also be used as a full blown web-form with as many fields as you want.
UPDATE: If you can not get this working like I did in the video, it’s beacuse the newest contact form 7 plugin for WordPress has issues. Please use this one for now until they work out the bugs. http://www.idiotproofblogging.com/reports/contact-form-7.zip
Hey folks, the following video is a fast one on how to use this blog/site.
Something new that was not covered in the video above is a search box you can use to look for content in this blog. Look over to the top right in the sidebar. That should help. Someone suggested it in a comment and as soon as I saw it, I added because if one felt this way, there has to be others.
Let’s chat blogs today but first, I’d like to welcome over 700 new subscribers! Thank you for downloading my report and I hope you enjoy.
Looks like “Your First WordPress Blog” tutorial guide was a hit during the GOLDEN WEEK GIVE AWAY event hosted by my friend James Brown. If you will, drop him a line and thank him for rounding up all the free gifts for you, please.
A lot of questions came in asking what is a blog. My first thought?, it’s whatever you want it to be.
A blog is an on-line journal. Seeing that it’s online, it’s known as a Weblog. But it can be anything you want it to be. I’ve said that already.
For me, a blog is a tool, a way to share information with people. It’s also a way to interact with people via comments.
Before blogs, I used HTML sites. HTML sites are very difficult to manage, no where for folks to comment for interaction and a bit cumbersome. (more…)
I’m all for using the minimum amount of plugins for your WordPress blog. Why is because the more you have the more updates will be needed.
Also, plugins can and do get hacked and exploited and having loads of plugins is more stuff on the list of “Things to watch”… Talk about a time vampire!
In my free WordPress report, “Your First WordPress Blog” I recommended using “PHP Contact Form v.2.OWP” as your mail contact form. For some reason I stopped using this and can’t remember why on one of my blogs and then changed most over to Contact Form 7. (more…)
