I wrote a post yesterday for hurolinan.com (my first) about RSS metrics, and how RSS has changed. A lot of the post is about Feedburner (Which I wrote about here). I actually forgot to mention the whole Feedburner Pro thing (ie its free!). A few components of Pro are included in the post though.
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My Wordpress skills are steadily progressing, I’m developing another blog for work. It isn’t quite ready enough to show here yet :). We are hiring a designer to help out making a front page (a special one, not just a list of recent posts). I think it is the guy who designed The Roar - a site that impressed me when I found out it was 100% made through Wordpress. I like seeing what it can do. Continue reading ‘Developing another (work) blog’
read part 1 first.
Everything’s ready? Ok, now what to do.
- Install Wordpress - This is unbelievably easy. Create a folder in the root of your site called blog (ie yourdomain.com/blog). Some will argue against using the word blog, or against putting wordpress into a subfolder. For my purposes & needs, it wasn’t a big deal. Once the files are uploaded, go to yourdomain.com/blog, follow the instructions, and you’ve got a swanky new blog. If you need help, its here. Continue reading ‘Howto: Add a blog to your existing website (2)’
I have finished designing/coding my work blog, and have imported some old static pages into it. I thought I would give a run-down on how to do it.
Requirements
- A CSS’d site: To follow this guide, you’ll need to have an existing site built in CSS (to some extent). For example, if you look at the CSS here, you’ll see that it includes the layout of the entire site. It will be far more difficult if the site you are working off is old (ie before CSS was widely used), having CSS in place will let you just drop wordpress into your existing “template”. Continue reading ‘Howto: Add a blog to your existing website (1)’
