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WordPress Themes

WordPress users can take advantage of an almost infinate variety of free theme designs or can choose amoung and equal number of professional designs. Any one of these can be easily installed by downloading the theme, uploading it’s folder to the theme directory and using the theme administration page to activate it. For those with sufficient knowledge of web design you may be able to create or alter an existing theme that would enable you to integrate a WordPress blog into an exiting site. With that in mind we will try to explain some of the basic elements that make up a WordPress theme. Read the rest of this entry �

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Blogging Basics

Blogging is an interactive process where visitors to a blog site can leave comments in response to articles or stories, referred to as posts, created by the site owner or publishers. The term “blog” is short for Web Log and was apparently first used in 1997 by Jorn Barger to describe a site he maintained comprised of a list or “log” of links to sites he believed to be of interest. Since then, the development community has developed a variety of content management and blogging applications with a wide range of capabilities that have made the process of publishing content and exchanging ideas almost as simple as creating documents in a word processor. Read the rest of this entry �

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YouTube And Grow

YouTubeYouTube offers an incomparable opportunity to expand on any effort to distribute your message via video be it for your business, a hobby, or for sharing with any online community. Weather you have a web cam or professional level video recorder you can easily prepare videos and upload them once you have a YouTube account. Joining YouTube is not only simple it is also FREE! Read the rest of this entry �

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Dynamic Websites With Drupal

Drupal provides a feature rich framework based on php scripts for building dynamic websites that can be run on a variety of platforms including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows or FreeBSD where Apache or IIS is setup and a compatible database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL is available. Once installed you have all the tools you’ll need on site accessed through any web browser. The content management system [CMS] has an extensive menu that allows you to control layout and a variety of data base driven content for web pages, blogs, forums and other publishing options. If you are only interested in blogging you may want to consider an alternative such as Blogger or WordPress. The appeal of Drupal is it’s versatility. It is one of the many open source projects found in fantastico that comes with cPanel hosting.
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