Why I Use Wordpress Blogs on My Own Hositng Accounts

Well I guess that just shows you how long it's been since I stopped using them.:) I never had a problem with Wordpress.com but stopped using them as well. I wasn't taking any chances with my income again.

thanks for correcting me.

I never worried about losing a blog before Blogger shut down my sites. I don't blog anything this is offensive, I don't swear, I don't put people down, no reason but it just took one person to complain about, well I never found that out, and they will shut you down without notice.

On my hosting accounts I have Fantastico as part of the control panel. It allows me to install Wordpress in about 1 minute flat, no software to deal with at all.

I never enjoyed it when I had to download the software and install. It just intimidated me and I have been a computer instructor for more than 20 years, so I could imagine how non-techies feel.

What is Fantastico? Is that something else to be downloaded?

Fantastico is an application in the Control Panel I have for my hosting accounts.

It is an awesome program or app that will let me setup so many platforms for content. I only use it to install Wordpress as it's the one I learned to use and love. There are so many other platforms for content management but I don't have time to learn any others right now.

I can log into my control panel from my website or blog and from there I can update the copy of Wordpress installed if there is an new available, right now I see I have a few blogs that are still version 2.3 and the latest release is 2.7.1 so I can just update with one click of my mouse.

I use to take about 15 minutes or more to install Wordpress manually but now I can do it from my hosting account in just one or two minutes.

You can do a search online for the 'fantastico help' and learn just how cool it is.

@Canellita-WebMann's description covers it completely...you see when you find a company to host your blogs/websites on, part of what that company will make available to you is a control panel that allows you too do just about anything n everything imagineable to your blog/website.

And you gain that access to do these incredible things, from a control panel...one of the items on that control panel is called Fantastico and what this does is makes it possible for you to set up a wordpress blog. And it really isn't that hard to do ... and the only reason I am stating that is because I have 5 thumbs and I got through it [LOL]...8o)

So this is an application supplied by the hosting service for your website then?

I do a little programming, just enough to add a few things to my header and sidebar, I can even put things above or below my posts but I still would be kinda lost if it wasn't for the great plugins.

What is adsense manager?

Gotta love plugins

I have a free tool I use to update my blogs right from my desktop without the need to open my browser and log into my accounts.

The tool is called BlogDesk and comes from BlogDesk.org and of course is a free download.

I just open up my copy of blogdesk, where I have all my blogs listed on the right hands side with all my categories.

I then just write my blog post, I can also download posts I have already published and modify them from BlogDesk and then just upload them again.

I can use images directly from my computer and when I upload my post it also sends the image along with it. It's just a tool that's just too cool.:0

Ohh, now that does sound yummy...time saving, compact with everything organized in one spot. I'm gonna check out that little 'doo-dad'...Thanx much...8o)

I won't be as active over the next 5 months as it's fishing and garden season here now and that's where I will spending my time.

It's going to be a great summer and I will have lots of content for my fishing and gardening blogs. Maybe even a few for my travel blog.

Have a great summer Zed

That is super awesome. Have a great summer to you too, bro and may you come back all fresh...

I wanted to buy a domain with my full name but it was already taken so I just bought a domain and added the ASK in front of my name so it says to ask me. I also buy domains that have the .ca for Canada so I can get domain names that are already taken in the .com world.

As for hosting, you can get a hosting account for about 5 bucks a month. I put Mylot earnings aside for that purpose.

I was pretty shocked when it happened to me.

That's what I like to hear, excellent. I find I use way too many plugins but that's only because I have install them all. They all do their jobs well so I am not really complaining. But I think the new theme I just bought this week is going to help me work with far less plugins.

I subscribed to Jack Humphrey's Friday Traffic Report, he is full of great information so I have him in my RSS feed reader Bloglines.

I have been going to his blogs for some time but just this week I came across a link to this new blog theme and started watching a couple of videos. I was excited about it immediately but thought I was likely one of those too good to be true products that wouldn't live up to the hype, but I was way off. It rocks.

The theme is 'the thesis theme' and I just blogged about it yesterday on the blog I have listed in my Profile page.

I won't bother saying any more here as I have already repeated some of what I wrote in my blog post. But you have to watch the videos on their site and I am sure you will be skeptical too.:)

BTW: I would like to know that name of the sitemap plugin that helps your readers find things. I find there are times I know I have a post with a phrase in it but can't find it from the search box in my blogs.

Hey,

The sitemap is by Dagon Design and it's like a table of contents for your blog - it sets it all up on a separate page. Pretty handy and the search engines like it too:-)

Just search dagon design and then go for wordpress plugins