Very simple tips to start your wordpress blog
Think that it is difficult to start a brand new wordpress blog site? never fear because this are some simple tips to start your wordpress blog. Your own wordpress blog like mine, mobile.islikethat.com not the free blog site form wordpress.org
- Depending on your web hosting service provider, you can use Fantastico or Plesk to install wordpress by a few clicks of the button
- After the above, in your wordpress blog, set up some of important settings at the admin portal. Go to Options->General to set your blog site name, Tagline and date & time. FYI, the email address in this page is used by the wordpress blog to send you notifications such as comments.
- Go to Permalinks to setup the blog’s Permalink Structure. This determines te pattern of your site post. For example, there are some options to chose from. I prefer to use the custom structure of http://mobile.islikethat.com/blogs/%postname% and not the more popular with data and name http://mobile.islikethat.com/2007/12/14/sample-post/
See the different between the two. I prefer what I am using, without the year, month and day. Personal Reason: This would make the URL more search engine readable. - Next, Go to Manager->Categories to create the classification for your blog post. So whenever I create a new blog post on wordpress, I will categories it under the term ‘wordpress’ Decide your categories properly in the beginning as in the future when your blog post grows, you can make use of it to allocate content in your blog page
Just a few simple tips which I use to start my wordpress blog 
*The above steps would require some basic computer skills
