28Jun06
Find Hosting and Getting a Domain Name
So you want to start your own blog, but you’re lost in a sea of web hosting choices. Luckily for you, I’ve already spent a lot of time researching and have decided to share my knowledge and experience to save you some time and trouble.
Picking a web host is one of the first decisions (and most expensive) you will have to make when starting your own site. Since hosting isn’t easy to change once it is setup and it is typically the most expensive aspect of starting a blog, it is scary choice to make–one that requires knowledge and deliberation.
Hosting essentially has two aspects. One, of course, is what company to go with. The second is technical specifications. In reality, the technical side is just as important as the cost side of the equation. Without the correct technology your site will be setup for failure before you even begin building it. Continue reading
26Jun06
Update: The series is now complete. For your convenience, I’ve updated the outline below to include a link to all of the posts.
It seems like there is plenty of information floating around the blogosphere about how to make your blog more successful, but not enough on how to build one from scratch. This post is the official start of my new series, “Starting a blog.” The goal of this series is to help non-techies and those unfamiliar with launching a web site learn how to start there very own blog. This series will be geared to newbies, but many of the resources that I plan to provide will be useful to veteran web developers.
Below I’ve provided a tentative outline of the series.
If you have any thing else you would like to see let me know and I’ll do my best to include it add it to the series.
16Jun06
Okay…so I’ve fallen in love with the new laptop by Apple…the MacBook. I’ve been wanting a Mac laptop for about a year or so and now that this one will run both Mac programs and PC programs I’m just dying to have one. Plus, if you buy a MacBook and an iPod nano before September 16 using the educational discount you can get a full refund for your nano. Love it! Love it! Well, my sister emailed me the other day to tell me her Dell laptop had fried. She needed to buy a new computer and asked what Matt and I would recommend. So, I gave my recommendation of the MacBook with the thought that my brother-in-law would never go for it since they’ve never had Macs before. They liked it…A LOT! My sister left me a “nasty” voicemail on my cell phone Wednesday night saying they had ordered a MacBook and even gotten the educational discount through my brother-in-law’s brother so they were getting the nano too. I’m “green with envy” as they say and am still dying to go out and buy my MacBook. On a good note, I will get to check it out before I buy. Moral to the story: Don’t tell your older sister what you like until after you’ve bought yours or she’ll steal it out from under you and you’ll have to be second in line for the toy!