Your favorite blog, none other than Blogmastr.com, is now powered by the start-of-the-art Wordpress 2.5. As of today (Sunday 30th March, 2008) we have upgraded our blogging system to the very latest version of Wordpress, 2.5.
As some of you bloggers out there will likely know, Wordpress 2.5 has been in the work for a very long time (around 6 months in total) and it’s finally come to fruition in the form of a stable release you can now download from Wordpress.org. If you’re an aspiring blogger looking to start a nice, healthy blog; we suggest you go there now!
Once we’d checked out 2.5 a little more, we’ll be sure to update you all with an in-depth review of this new installation, and perhaps it would be a good time to post a bunch of Wordpress tutorials for all those newbies just getting started?
Anyway, tell me what you all think and please reply here in the comments if you notice any errors/bugs/etc
Just letting everyone know I’ll be away on a school excursion until late Friday night (9pm local time), so there will be a minimal amount of updates until then (only posts i write in advance). Also, just to let you know, I’m figuring out how to do some of those neat as screencasts and i’m gonna post a series of (weekly?) videos and tutorials on basic webmastering, blogging and marketing things…should be good :)
You’ve seen those work-from-home mom blogs, right? Or those I-Make-$30,000-A-Month-On-The-Internet blogs? Well all of them - every single one - is about the author. It’s not like it’s about cars, for example, or gadgets or politics. It could feature some of those topics, as a side note, but it’s mainly about them. If my mum was to set one up now it would be about how she is a work-at-home-mom (even though she isn’t). So what exactly makes these people and their lives interesting enough to read about? Envy.
When we read about that guy or gal who earns $30,000 from writing about how much he earns online (john chow ring a bell?), what do we feel? We feel envy. We think to ourselves boy, i wish i earned that much doing that - that’d be the life. Well, guess what? That’s Interesting. It’s interesting to read about the life of someone we’d like to be. What about that work-at-home-mom? She stays at home, looks after a kid or two and makes some dosh by blogging about…how she stays at home and makes money. People want to be like her. They want to sleep in, look after the kids at home, spend an hour or two blogging and make money doing so.
So how do you make people envy you and read your blog? This simple answer is; blog about something they want to do. People like to earn money. Blog about that. People like to travel and escape their day jobs. Blog about that. People wish they were famous. Blog about famous people.. I guess it’s been said before, but you have to find your niche. A cosey little subject that you know about, your interested in and, more importantly, other people are interested in.
Go find your niche’s people!
The first thing most people want to do after setting up their blog, is to customize it, and the very first step in customizing your wordpress blog is installing a custom theme.
Now, mostly people obviously can’t afford to buy a theme custom made for their own blogs, so they’ll go looking for a free wordpress theme. To make this job easier for you, we’ve rounded up the best destinations for free wordpress themes.
Of All these, Theme-CSS has to be my favorite, but I’m sure you could find something on any of those sites that would suit your needs. So good luck, everyone! Customize and get blogging!
If you’re just starting out with your site, or re-making it, you have two choices: hand-coding or use a CMS (content management system). For those of you taking the latter route and not wanting to code your own, here’s my selection of the finest pre-made content management systems around.
*click the images to go to the site.
Wordpress - One of, if not the best, most powerful and easiest to use blogging systems around - and it’s completely free! 2.5 should be out within the coming days :)
Drupal - the most powerful, extend-able CMS you can find. Modules and Themes for every purpose, taste or style are available either free or paid (boo!).
Symphony - gets a special mention because it is awesome and Australian Made! We Australians pretty much kick ass in everything we do, and this is a great example of kicking ass at making content management systems :)
Xoops - not as popular as Drupal, but yet still very professional and very extensive customization options.
TYPO3 - hasn’t been updated in a while, but still a very good, powerful and unique CMS.
Expression Engine - looks to be one of the most powerful and impressive blogging/cms engines ever.
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