The official website of The Vancouver Convention Centre is designed using WordPress as a CMS. This is a great site and an even better example of what you can do using WordPress. To set up your own WordPress site, visit my step-by-step tutorial
Step-by-step WordPress setup
January 18, 2010 By 3 Comments
Setting up your blog for the first time can be a little intimidating. If you are holding off because you’re uncertain of where to begin, not to worry. This post will get you through the process unscathed. It really is painless, I promise! Step One – Decide on a domain name (web address) The first [...]
Where to find quality WordPress themes
December 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
One of the greatest benefits to using WordPress is being able to tap into the open source community. WordPress themes are everywhere – a lot of the time, for free! So, if you’ve decided that WordPress is your blogging platform of choice and you want to make your new site all pretty and whatnot, read [...]
Where to host your WordPress blog & purchase domains
December 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
WordPress is the blogging platform of choice for a large percentage of professional bloggers. Whether you’re just starting to blog or you’ve decided to move from Blogger to WordPress, you’ll need a reliable place for hosting. This is a list of the top rated hosting sites for speed, reliability and pricing. I’ve had the opportunity [...]
Add a WordPress site to Google Webmaster Tools
November 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Google Webmaster Tools is a program used to gather information about your site’s visibility on Google. With it you can: Learn how Google crawls your web pages and diagnose specific problems that Google is having accessing the site. Discover how many external links are pointing to your website from other websites. Learn more about your [...]
Create an XML sitemap for your WordPress blog
November 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The easiest way to add an XML sitemap to WordPress is to use the Google XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress. Here are the steps to follow for installing and setting up your XML sitemap: 1) Login to your WordPress Admin account. 2) Click on the Add New link in the left hand column under the [...]
What blogging platform should you use?
July 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
There are so many different options for new bloggers that it can make you dizzy trying to choose the right platform. If you are looking for a solution, you’re probably asking questions like: ‘Should I host my blog with Blogger.com or use WordPress?’ ‘What is the difference between a hosted blog platform and a self [...]
Recommended Plugins for WordPress
June 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Here’s a list of recommended plugins for WordPress. These plugins can help with everything from search engine optimizing your WordPress blog to improving the load time of your websites pages. If you’re starting a blog, I highly recommend adding these tools right away. Askimet- This nifty plugin helps eliminate comment spam on your blog. If [...]
Adding Google Analytics to WordPress
April 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Just as the title says: this post is about adding Google Analytics to your WordPress Site. With no further ado, here is how you do it. 1.) First, visit your Google Analytics account to give Google some information about your site. Once you login, click the add a new profile link like the one below: [...]
Using GoDaddy and WordPress
May 7, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I’m using GoDaddy to host WordPress and I have to say, I’m really impressed with how easy they make it to install blog platforms and open source content management systems. Once you buy hosting with www.GoDaddy.com. for a few bucks a month, you can install WordPress in minutes using the quick install tab in their [...]
