WordPress is a content management and site-building system that you can use to build and manage your blog content. There are two versions of WordPress: WordPress.com offers a fully paid-for service. All the files for your blog are managed for you and you don’t have to get involved in hosting or updates. There are limits … Read more
When you buy a domain name (yourblogname.com) from a domain registration company, the domain name is set up to point at the domain registration company’s own servers. The servers are where the files for your blog/website live. If you are setting up your blog/website through the domain registration company this is fine. But if you … Read more
If you plan to have a number of blogs/websites, investing in a separate hosting package to host your domain can be cost-effective. Hosting is where the files for your blog live. All blogs/websites need hosting. Hosting companies provide hosting for websites and blogs, i.e. they store the files for your blog on servers and they … Read more
You’ll need to buy a blog/website address so that people can find your blog online. Your blog address is known as a domain. The domain (address) for this blog is: simply-write.co.uk As you can see, it’s made up of different parts: the part before the dot and the part after the dot. The part before … Read more
A friend of mine loves documenting life through photographs and whenever anyone is looking for a picture of a particular gathering or event, no matter how long ago, he’s our go-to person. This same friend always reminds me that a picture paints a thousand words, and he’s absolutely right. Not everyone likes to be confronted … Read more
Let’s get started by asking a few questions. Then we’ll set up a few guidelines to move things forward. Step 1 – What? What will the blog post be about? What is the purpose of the piece you’ll be writing? Is it to show your readers how to do something, how to find something or … Read more