blogging 101 overview and a real deal review BlogTutorial

So, you want to start a blog? Well it is simple enough, you just follow these simple steps.

Go to and get a domain
Go to and get a hosting package
Change your DNS to your hostgator account
Go to your cpanel and click on fantastico and install wordpress
Go to wordpress.org and find a theme you like, or design your own, assuming you know php
Download the theme, then upload to your site, then extract files and and go back to your blog, log in , go to design, and change your theme
Follow the same plan for plug-ins
Set up all your options
Get a payperpost account, a adsense account, an amazon account and about a thousand affiliate accounts. Put them all in place.
Set up your own squidoo lens, an entrecard account and get some kahuna stuff going for traffic.
Then all you have to do is write a couple posts and upload a couple pictures and in 30 days or less you will be rich and famous. Not really. But after lots of hard word and a good amount of time maybe your message will be heard and you might even have a little extra grocery money. Or if you make a home business out of it you might even have a decent income.

That simple right? Well yes and no. If everything I wrote above makes sense, then yes it is that simple. But all that took me the better part of a year to learn. And I already knew how to produce a website. Blogs are a whole different deal. Simply starting a blog to say, “Hi Mom” is an art. But blogs are worth learning about. They are an important form of communication these days. And advertisers know lots of folks spend more time on blogs for either learning or entertainment than they do watching TV. I can watch a hurricane hit on CNN or I can read a blog of someone going through it. I can find a lesson by a real hands on person for any subject my home school children can dream up on somebody’s blog. And maybe make a friend in the process.

So if you have decided you need a blog and you need to know all that I talked about, you have two ootions here you can wait for me to finish my ebook on the subject, which I am now closer to after writing this nice outline. Or you can take a look at my friend Susan Whitehead’s BlogTutorial. She uses the wonder of screen catching video to show you things I can never cover in a book. There are hours of video here that describe and show everything step by step. Susan has a very pleasant and kind voice which makes learning with her more like an afternoon visit with a friend. She doesn’t talk over your head, and she doesn’t edit out mistakes, she shows you how to fix them. She shows you step by step in one day what it took me the better part of a year to learn. And since it is video you can stop and start, rewind and watch again. And take it as fast or slow as you like. She covers these subjects and more:

Finding a hosting service, choosing a domain name, setting up a email account with your own domain name, setting up your wordpress blog, finding, uploading and installing a wordpress theme, finding, uploading and activating plugins, making money from your blog, getting traffic to your blog, setting up a newsletter, and much more.

In my eyes this course is equivelant to a 9 week course at our local community college. So you can do it the long hard pioneer way like I did or you can travel the road that has already been paved. Let me tell you, this blazing a path thing is hard work, my only complaint about Susan’s course is that it was not available last winter. I would have asked for it for my birthday :lol: .