On September 27, 2010, Microsoft and WordPress.com announced a new partnership that involved moving all the Windows Live Spaces blog sites to the WordPress.com. According to the announcement, this will move some 30 million active bloggers to WordPress.com. Existing Windows Live Spaces customers will have an easy method to upgrade to WordPress.com, moving their posts, [...]
Creating a Blog For Family and Friends
One of the easiest methods to set up your own web site is to get your own blog at one of the free blog sites. You might want to share some photos with family and friends. You might want to write about hobbies, business, computers, dogs, politics or any other subject. A blog is a [...]
Virtual Web Hosting | Virtual Private Servers | Shared Web Hosting
The most expensive form of web hosting, before you consider through-put (sometimes incorrectly termed “bandwidth”) charges, is dedicated web hosting. In this form of hosting, you actually have your own entire computer — no one else has any activities on your computer. No other web site can affect your site’s operation on the server by [...]
Blog questions and Vista SP2
Ed Pilarczyk wrote last week to ask: Hey Terry, As a long time subscriber, I have to say that you continue to do a GREAT job. Thanks for all your hard work!! Two things. First, I can find no way to register for any of your blogs. I found the link to log in…but not [...]
Blogging to Share and Exchange Information
WordPress is one of the most popular blog software packages and is available free for use in your own web hosting package. Or, as one of my subscribers did, you can create your blog for free at wordpress.com. In one case, my subscriber is using his blog to share genealogical research information with other family [...]
Blogging
One of the fastest growing types of web site is a blog site. What is a blog? The word is a contraction of "web log". It is a site where a user (typically one) posts articles and other users post comments on the article. Some people create their blogs as single-author sites. They may focus [...]
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